{"id":1487,"date":"2012-07-09T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/1487-is-the-3d-printed-designed-to-win-the-worlds-fastest-shoe.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:20:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:20:12","slug":"is-the-3d-printed-designed-to-win-the-worlds-fastest-shoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/is-the-3d-printed-designed-to-win-the-worlds-fastest-shoe","title":{"rendered":"Is the 3D Printed &#8220;DESIGNED TO WIN&#8221; the World&#8217;s Fastest Shoe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: small; \">French-born engineer and designer<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucfusaro.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: small; \">&nbsp;Luc Fusaro<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: small; \">, a student at the Royal College of Art in London, claims he has invented the world&#8217;s&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: small; \">fastest running shoe. Using 3d scans, the &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucfusaro.com\/en\/sport\/skin\/skin.php\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: small; \">Designed to Win<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: small; \">&#8221; shoe is designed around the unique shape of a runner&#8217;s foot, weighs 96 grams, and &nbsp;it can improve performance by as much as 3.5% (about .35 seconds in a 100-meter dash). &nbsp;The shoe is not designed for long distance but for sprinter&#8217;s that time is the difference between silver and gold. &nbsp;Unfortunately it will not be available for the upcoming Olympics but Fusaro hopes to have it ready for the 2016 games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/163.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/dsc8648-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resources_v2\/flash\/video_embed.swf?videoId=236098233&amp;edition=IN\" id=\"rcomVideo_236098233\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resources_v2\/flash\/video_embed.swf?videoId=236098233&amp;edition=IN\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resources_v2\/flash\/video_embed.swf?videoId=236098233&amp;edition=IN\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>see also:&nbsp;<a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/1457-Designer-Spotlight-Kostika-Spaho.html\" target=\"_blank\">Biomimicry Shoe<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/1477-Exoskeleton-Shoe-Dragon-Skulls,-Footwear,-3D-Printing-and-a-Commission-from-the-Shapeways-Forum.html\" target=\"_blank\">Exoskeleton Shoe<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French-born engineer and designer&nbsp;Luc Fusaro, a student at the Royal College of Art in London, claims he has invented the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":12999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[489],"tags":[482,477],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products-and-design","tag-6-inspiration","tag-1-whats-hot"],"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/dsc8648-1.jpg","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is the 3D Printed &quot;DESIGNED TO WIN&quot; 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