Duke's Olympic life

• Duke won gold in the 100-meter freestyle in the 1912 Olympic games in Stockholm, and got silver with the relay team
• In the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp he won gold metals in both the 100-meters and relay
• He got a silver medal during the Paris Olympics in 1924, and this was his last Olympic medal a age 34
• He was the most famous Hawaiian alive at the time
• Him being famous brought a lot of publicity to the islands
• He travelled as a Hawaiian ambassador
• He gave swimming lessons
• He also popularized surfing, which use to be only common in Hawaii
• He taught a surfing exhibition in Sydney’s Freshwater Beach on December 23, 1914, and this had a big influence on the development of surfing in Australia