2025 Summer Deaflympics

XXV Summer Deaflympics
Host cityTokyo, Japan
Opening15 November 2025
Closing26 November 2025
WebsiteOfficial website
Summer
Winter

The 2025 Summer Deaflympics, officially known as the 25th Summer Deaflympics or XXV Summer Deaflympics, is an international multi-sport event that is scheduled to be held in Tokyo, Japan from 15 November 2025 to 26 November 2025.[1][2] The multi-sport event would also commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Deaflympics, as the inaugural edition was kicked off in 1924.[3][4] This will be the first instance where Japan will be hosting the Summer Deaflympics in the history of the competition, and it will mark the return of another Olympic-styled multi-sport event in Japan since the beginning of the 2020's after the Pacific nation staged both the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Paralympics.[5][6] It marks the third instance where an Asian nation has been given the hosting rights of the Summer Deaflympics after Chinese Taipei (2009) and Turkiye (2017).[7]

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