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The new Speedo LZR Racer swimsuit is being hailed as the “world’s fastest swimsuit” as athletes wearing the swimsuit have broken three world records within a week of its debut.

Even if I won’t be joining the 2012 Olympic hopefuls in purchasing the £320 suit, I can’t deny that the research from Speedo’s “AQUALAB” is pretty cool. The team used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to determine the sources of drag from the skin. According to researcher Dr. Herve Morvan, “with CFD analysis we were able to use the compressive properties of the suit to make the swimmer as hydrodynamically efficient as possible.” They also used similar simulations to train athletes, showing the effects of swim cap and finger position in performance.

This suit has 5% less drag than last year’s high performance Speedo, the FS Pro, which helped swimmers break 21 world records. Hey that’s not bad. With all the FS Pros going out of fashion, maybe I can find one used on ebay?

Or maybe I’ll just stick to breaking my own records with my £12 Speedo.

Link to Speedo LZR Racer
Link to Engineering The World’s Fastest Swimsuit on Science Daily

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Tags: research, speedo, Swimming, swimsuit

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This entry was posted on Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 at 9:19 pm by monica and is filed under Fitness, Link, Swimming. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.