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Sasaki Takes Bronze in Deaflympics 100m as Japan Adds Men’s Judo Team Medal

An Estonian winner set a meet record that left the defending champion 0.05 seconds short.

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.