Duane DeSoto
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| birth_place = Spokane, Washington
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| years_active= 17 years
| best_year = Ranked 1st on the ASP World Longboard Championship, 2010
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Duane DeSoto (born 1978 in Spokane, Washington) is an American professional longboard surfrider
DeSoto won the 2010 Oxbow ASP World Longboard Championship, defeating France's Antoine Delpero in the Final at Makaha. In 1997, he finished third in the ASP World Tour.[http://sports123.com/sur/mpwl.html Sports 123] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111103135711/http://sports123.com/sur/mpwl.html |date=November 3, 2011 }} He received the Professional Surfer Award at the 8th Annual John Kelly Environmental Awards in 2010.{{Cite web |url=http://surf.transworld.net/1000118676/news/duane-desoto-wins-world-longboard-title |title=Duane DeSoto Wins Oxbow ASP World Longboard Championship At Makaha |access-date=2011-08-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809105452/http://surf.transworld.net/1000118676/news/duane-desoto-wins-world-longboard-title/ |archive-date=2011-08-09 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|date=2012-07-16|title=Tickets SOLD OUT for the 8th Annual John Kelly Environmental Achievem…|url=http://ww2.surfrider.org/oahu/?p=836|access-date=2021-08-27|website=archive.ph|archive-date=2012-07-16|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120716211951/http://ww2.surfrider.org/oahu/?p=836|url-status=live}}
DeSoto played Duke Kahanamoku in the 2022 documentary Waterman – Duke: Ambassador of Aloha.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/waterman-duke-ambassador-of-aloha-stream-documentary/21022/|title=Stream Waterman – Duke: Ambassador of Aloha | American Masters|date=15 March 2022|website=Pbd.org|access-date=4 June 2022}}
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