TOKYO (Nov. 18, 2025) – Senior Collin Davis will represent USA Deaf Swimming as a captain at the 2025 Deaflympics in Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 19-24.
 

TOKYO 2025 DEAFLYMPICS
Date | Time	Wednesday, Nov. 19 – Monday, Nov. 24
Location	Tokyo Aquatics Center | Tokyo, Japan
Schedule	Deaflympics Site
Results	Results Site
Watch	Youtube

Davis will compete in his second Deaflympic Games and his fourth international Deaf Swimming event. He has earned one silver and four bronze medals across Deaflympic and World Championship competitions. Davis also holds three U.S. Deaf Swimming records in the 200-yard Freestyle (1:39.51), 50-yard Butterfly (22.89) and 200-yard IM (1:48.43).

Davis will race in seven individual events, 100-meter Backstroke, 200-meter Freestyle, 200-meter Freestyle, 100-meter Freestyle, 200-meter IM, 50-meter Backstroke and 100-meter Butterfly, as well as several relay events.

The United States will be represented by 163 athletes, 13 of whom will compete in the pool alongside Davis.

WHAT ARE THE DEAFLYMPICS?
Organized by the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (ICSD), the Deaflympics is an international Olympic Games for and run by Deaf and hard of hearing people. The Games are held every four years with separate summer and winter Games. This year is the 25th Summer Deaflympics, the first held in Japan, and marks the 100th anniversary of the first Deaflympics held in Paris.

Eugene Rubens-Alcais, himself Deaf and president of the French Deaf Sports Federation, launched the first Games in Paris, France, in 1924, initially called the International Silent Games. At the time, Deaf people were considered intellectually and physically inferior to hearing people. Alcais aimed to create the Games to change how society viewed Deaf people by hosting and organizing their own international sports competition. In 2001, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) granted permission to use the name Deaflympics.

The Tokyo 2025 Deaflympics will be held Nov. 15-26, with 70-80 countries/regions represented in a total of 21 sports.

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