Speedo LZR Racer

Country

Australia

Founded

2008

Category

Clothing / Textiles and material technology

Speedo LZR Racer is a technical competition swimwear line announced on February 13, 2008, by Speedo, a sports brand originating in Australia. It was developed by Speedo’s Aqualab in collaboration with Italy’s Mectex and Australia’s Australian Institute of Sport, with testing and analysis support from NASA and others. Its design combines LZR Pulse fabric with compression panels to reduce water resistance and muscle vibration. At Beijing 2008, numerous world records were set in events in which athletes wore suits from the same family. Full-body suits were subsequently restricted following a review of international competition regulations, but the LZR name has continued to be used for models made to comply with regulations and featuring a textile construction.

A technology-driven racing suit for competitive swimming. Its design combines LZR Pulse fabric and compression panels with fluid-dynamics analysis to reduce water resistance and muscle vibration, with the aim of improving swimming performance.

The world's fastest swimsuit.

• Speedo 1914

  Speedo’s competitive-swimming “LZR Racer” is a line of competition suits introduced on February 13, 2008, and expanded into multiple models, including LZR Pro and LZR Elite. Among the Fastskin-related racewear lines, it is positioned as a group of “high-speed, compression-oriented” suits bearing the LZR name, a derivative line designed for use in competitions.

  A lineage of competitive-swimming suits bearing the LZR name