Pua Kealoha
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| File:Pua Kealoha passport 1920.jpg
Passport photo of Kealoha from 1920
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| Full name | Pua Kele Kealoha | |||||||||||||||
| National team |  United States |
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| Born | November 14, 1902 Waialua, Hawaii |
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| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. San Francisco, California |
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||
| Club | Hui Makami Club | |||||||||||||||
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Pua Kele Kealoha (November 14, 1902 – August 29, 1989) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. He was not related to Olympic swimming champion Warren Kealoha.[1]
Kealoha represented the United States at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium as a 17-year-old.[2] He won a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay with teammates Perry McGillivray, Norman Ross and Duke Kahanamoku.[2][3] The U.S. relay team set a new world record of 10:04.4 in the event final.[2] Individually, Kealoha also received a silver medal for his second-place performance in the men's 100-meter freestyle and finished with a time of 1:02.6.[2][4]
According to a member of the Kahanamoku family who knew him, Kealoha was the only person to swim unassisted from Molokai to Oahu. He had previously tried to swim from Oahu to Molokai but failed due to the headwind, current, and waves.
See also
References
- ↑ Sports-Reference, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Warren Kealoha. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Pua Kele Kealoha. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
- ↑ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, United States Swimming at the 1920 Antwerpen Summer Games. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
- ↑ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1920 Antwerpen Summer Games, Men's 100 metres Freestyle Final. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
- Pua Kele Kealoha – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
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- 1902 births
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- American male freestyle swimmers
- Former world record holders in swimming
- Native Hawaiian sportspeople
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Olympic swimmers of the United States
- People from Honolulu County, Hawaii
- Swimmers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
