is a Paralympic

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from Japan competing mainly in category S6 events. Daisuke was a competitor at two Paralympic games, first in

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then in

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. At the 2000 games he was part of the Japanese squads that failed to make the final of the 4 × 100 m freestyle and the 4 × 100 m medley. Individually he also failed to make the final in the 50m butterfly, 100m backstroke, 100m freestyle and 400m freestyle. He would have more luck in 2004 where the Japanese 4x50m medley squad won a silver medal behind the Brazilian squad that set a new Paralympic record, and also finished fourth in the 4x50m freestyle, individually he competed in the 50m butterfly, 50m freestyle and 100m freestyle but again failed to make any finals.

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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 freestyle swimmers Living people Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Year of birth missing (living people) Paralympic medalists in swimming S6-classified Paralympic swimmers 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-Paralympic-medalist-stub