The hosts won twelve of the nineteen events and had a gold or silver medallist in all but three of the contests.

Yu Huaian was their only individual medallist, although he performed well by winning the high jump in a games record.

Katsuo Okazaki, defended his mile run title and went one better than his 1923 880-yards runner-up finish to achieve a middle-distance double.

[2][4] Yonetaro Nakazawa, the pole vault winner here, was Japan's flag bearer at that games.

[5] Japan's Nobuyuki Yoshioka defended his title in the five-mile run from the 1921 games and Filipino decathlete Juan Taduran also achieved that feat in his event.