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from Japan competing mainly in category S7 events. Daisuke has competed at two Paralympics, firstly in

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in Athens and then in

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in Beijing. In Athens he was part of the Japanese 4x50m Medley team that won a silver medal behind a new Paralympic record set by Brazil. He also competed in the 50m butterfly finishing seventh, 100m backstroke finishing seventh and was disqualified from the heat of 200m individual medley. At the 2008 games he competed in the same individual events finishing fourth in the 50m butterfly, fifth in the 100m backstroke and seventh in the 200m individual medley.

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* Paralympic swimmers of Japan Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Paralympic silver medalists for Japan Japanese male backstroke swimmers Japanese male butterfly swimmers Japanese male medley swimmers Living people Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics S7-classified Paralympic swimmers Year of birth missing (living people) Paralympic medalists in swimming 21st-century Japanese people Medalists at the 2018 Asian Para Games {{Japan-Paralympic-medalist-stub