Overview
- Takuma Sasaki clocked 10.63 in the men’s 100 meters to finish third, earning a second consecutive Deaflympics medal.
- The Estonian gold medalist’s meet record edged Sasaki by 0.05 seconds in a final that used visual start lamps rather than a starter’s pistol.
- Japan’s men won bronze in the judo team event under the two-win format, and the women fell in the bronze-medal match.
- On the track, Shogo Sakata placed eighth in his event and decathlete Yusuke Okabe finished seventh.
- In other results, both Japanese mixed doubles table tennis pairs bowed out in the quarterfinals and round two, and cyclist Rokusashi Fujimoto took seventh in the men’s road points race.