Top Japanese sprinter Yoshihide Kiryu scoffed when he first saw Asics Corp.'s spikeless track shoes, featuring a honeycombed carbon fiber outer sole, eschewing metal spikes. “Did you really ...

“We serve all the athletes in all those different events equally and we put the same focus into the javelin boot as we do the 100-meter shoe.” The Nike Maxfly 2 is an updated sprinter's spike ...

"Previously, the foam wasn't resilient enough to merit adding it into the shoe." The super spikes' other key component, stiff plates made of carbon fiber or hard plastic, help sprinters run on ...

In August 2022, Fabian Schweizer, the Director of Athlete Services at Adidas, discussed the genesis of the shoe in a video titled “Building The Fastest Sprint Spike – adidas Prime SP 2 | The ...

Benjamin is one of a number of athletes at the Tokyo Games to be using Nike's latest sprint spike technology, wearing a pair of Nike Air Zoom Victory shoes in the race. The shoes draw heavily on ...