Catapult Sports
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Catapult Sports, or Catapult, is a privately held athlete analytics company that engineers wearable technology for elite sports. The company is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, with offices in London and Dallas.
Catapult is the largest supplier of athlete tracking monitors in elite sport,[1] with over 350 elite teams worldwide[2] using the technology to assess athlete risk, readiness and return to play.
Its marquee product is the OptimEye S5,[3] a GNSS-enabled monitor that accesses both GPS and GLONASS satellites, but also a ClearSky local positioning system that was developed in conjunction with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), which won the 2013 Australian Engineering Excellence Award.[4]
The company was founded by two engineers, Shaun Holthouse and Igor van de Griendt,[5] who were working with the Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) during a project with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in 2001. The AIS were looking to use microtechnology to replace laboratory-based performance testing as athletes were not exerting themselves in the same way as they do in competition.
Catapult was commercialised in 2006 and now has nine patents in the field of athlete tracking.
References
- ^ "Sports wearables are the wave of the future - Sports". The Boston Globe. 2014-05-25. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
- ^ Nate Cochrane. "Catapult Sports is 'Google analytics for athletes': wearable technology start-up series". Brw.com.au. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
- ^ Chris Pash Nov 14, 2013, 11:49 AM Bookmark (2013-11-14). "FIRST PHOTO: See The Tracking Device That's Changing The World Of Professional Athletics". Business Insider. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Innovative Engineers Awarded with Top Honours". Engineers Australia. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
- ^ "The Australian Tech That's Improving The World's Best Athletes". Forbes. Retrieved 2014-06-24.