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SPEEDO Launch Worlds Fastest Swimsuit |
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Written by CB Team
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
 To celebrate its 80th anniversary, Speedo, the world’s leading swimwear brand has launched SPEEDO LZR RACER suit, which independent testing has shown to be the world’s fastest swimsuit.
Speedo has harnessed the expertise of the United States space agency NASA amongst a number of international research institutes to create a faster suit which has 10% less passive drag than Speedo’s FASTSKIN FSII launched in 2004 and 5% less passive drag than Speedo FS-PRO, which was launched in March 2007 and has seen swimmers break 21 World records as a result.
The suit is made from an ultra lightweight, low drag, water repellent, fast drying fabric, unique to Speedo, called LZR PULSE, the LZR RACER is the world’s first fully bonded swimsuit that is ultrasonically welded and gives the effect of no seams at all.
Ultra low drag LZR Panels are embedded into the base fabric to create a ‘Hydro Form Compression system’ helping to compress the entire swimmer’s body into a more streamlined shape and enabling them to cut through the water with more power and agility.
Speedo scanned the bodies of more than 400 elite swimmers (they tried to scan a few people at Crowdedbrain HQ but the scanner could not handle the girth - only kidding (ed) and held technical tests involving more than 100 different fabrics and suit designs in the world’s leading flume and test centres.
Their quest to enable swimmers to swim faster than ever before, took them all over the world from the NASA Langley Research Centre to the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), Otago University in New Zealand and working with CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) software from ANSYS, Inc., whose technology is also used in F1 motor racing and America’s Cup yachting.
The Speedo LZR RACER suit will debut at national trials around the world from March 2008. A retail version of the suit will go on sale in May 2008.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 12 February 2008 )
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