The Olympic Games are back in full force and all our eyes are on Paris this summer 2024: Swimming, Springboard and Platform Diving, Water Polo, Synchronized Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Canoeing, Kayaking, Rowing and Sailing. We know our favorite Olympic water sports encompass a range of extremely challenging disciplines that test athletes’ speed, strength, technique, strategies and endurance in aquatic environments. This guide highlights the importance of how a comfortable and well-engineered swimsuit – from fabric to garment manufacturing – makes for the expression of water sports at their highest power!
Performance swimwear is engineered to enhance athletes’ efficiency in the water, accompanying their techniques and each stroke to their maximum power. The choice of fabric plays a crucial role in achieving these objectives. Performance swimwear fabrics must possess several key characteristics to meet the demands of competitive swimming:
Which Hung Yen fabrics we recommend then for water sports and what are their properties?
Instead of focusing on the basic differences that materials such as Nylon vs Polyester can make between one another, we have always favored to deliver the best innovations in both solutions, made with certified and traceable raw materials such as REPREVE, CREORA Highclo, REGEN OCEAN, XLANCE as a guarantee in terms of durability after multiple uses with basic care maintenance.
Excellent resistance to chlorine, UV fabric and color resistance, UV skin protection, durability of colors, flexibility and comfort of movements, elastic properties and muscle support, are what we consider the basic properties embedded in Hung Yen fabrics for swimwear applications. The actual innovation goes beyond, offering solutions in terms of durable raw materials, sustainability and performances.
– All Hung Yen fabrics collections can be treated with advanced PFCs-free treatments that repel water more effectively to reduce water friction. Anti-microbial treatments are also available for comfortable odourless usage, also outside the swimming pool.Â
– Flat construction for raw cut swimsuits to reduce friction and edges with water and increase speed and light muscle support: N840 BAHIA REC / N815 WIND REC.
– Comfort fitting, with different degrees of compression and elastic properties for a wide choice of hand feeling: N818 PALM REC / N820 OCEAN REC / N930 ECOFIT TOUCH.
– CHLORINE PROOF fabrics for extreme applications, with +200h dynamic stretch resistance in 4-ppm Chlorine solution:Â P345 NAUTILUS REC / P365 ATLANTIS REC.
– Sustainable materials that enable 100% circularity made with discarded post-consumer regenerated waste with blended elastomeric solutions like N850 FISHTALE, or with mono-component materials, suitable for the future textile industrial scale recycling systems: P375 SPRINT REC.
We would like to focus on this last point and emphasize that Hung Yen Knitting & Dyeing will achieve the promise of reaching a 100% Recycled Collection by 2025! Fostering the example of bringing innovation through responsible raw material’s choices. Recycled Polyester from PET bottles, Recycled Polyester from upcycled garment, Recycled Nylon from discarded ghost fishing nets, recycled Nylon and Spandex from textile pre-consumer waste are the main materials currently used in our main line fabric’s collections, all OekoTex Standard 100 and GRS – Global Recycled Standard certified and traceable fabrics; with more innovations coming along in 2025 for sportswear and fitness applications!
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Hung Yen K&D Team
Hung Yen K&D Team
