Born: 1962

Hometown: Toronto, ON

Sport: Athletics/Track and Field

Born in Toronto, Frank’s career began at Durham College where he was nominated for the OCAA Championship All-Star Team and won Athlete of the Year. While there, he led the Durham Lords Basketball team to its first ever OCAA Tier 2 Men’s Basketball Championship in 1982 – 1983. He was also a member of Durham College’s Touch Football Variety, which brought home the OCAA Provincial Championship Bronze Medal, and in his graduating season, named the college’s “Male Athlete of the Year.” He graduated in 1983 with a diploma in Sports Administration.

Tragically, shortly after his strong athletic college career, Frank fell at work and fractured his skull. Doctors gave him a 2% survival rate, and told it was unlikely he’d ever walk again. Tenacious and indomitable, however, Frank defied his doctor’s predications, and after several weeks, was able to walk again. He returned to athletics in 1988, joining Sport for Disabled, where he began to compete in F37 events. He would quickly go on to place second in both the 100m and 200m races at the 1989 provincial championships, and first in the 100m, 200m, 4 x relay, long jump, and shot put events at the national games, breaking records along the way.

At the provincial level, Frank’s success qualified him for the World Championships, where he won five gold and two silver medals. He would also win gold in the 100m, 200m, and 400m races at the 1992 Paralympic games. AA the 1996 Atlanta games he competed in shot put, but failed to medal.

For his phenomenal athleticism, Frank was inducted into the Terry Fox Hall of Fame and awarded Ontario’s “Disabled Athlete of the Year.” He was also awarded the King Clancy Award (2010). Most recently, he was a torchbearer at the Pan Am Relay for the Toronto 2015 Games.

You can find Frank, today, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/frankb4?lang=en