Frank (pictured), who refereed regularly in the BWPL during his time in Wales as a lecturer in astro-physics at Cardiff University, has become one of the world’s leading officials – a regular in the World League and Champions League as well as refereeing top games at the FINA World Championships in Budapest.
Now back in his narive Germany and based at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, he was also appointed to the Olympics panel for the event’s original date of 2020.