ABBOTT PARK, Ill., April 12, 2021
/PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced today it is
teaming up with Eliud Kipchoge, who is considered the world's
fastest marathon runner, and the NN Running Team to support their
athletic performance training program. Kipchoge and three NN
Running Team members are training with Abbott's Libre Sense Glucose
Sport Biosensor to monitor their glucose levels to help them
achieve optimal athletic performance. The NN Mission Marathon, a
qualifying race for the Olympic Games, in Enschede, the
Netherlands on April 18, will be
the first time Kipchoge and the NN Running Team will use Abbott's
biosensor in a competitive marathon.
"Using Abbott's Libre Sense has transformed my training program.
I am learning how my glucose levels relate to my running
performance and have already started to see how quickly small
adjustments can make a big difference," said Eliud Kipchoge, the
world's fastest marathon runner. "I am honored to work on this
project, which hopefully will help athletes around the world to
better understand the relationship between nutrition and
performance to help them improve."
Kipchoge is celebrated as the greatest marathon runner in
history as a three-time Olympic medal winner and the first person
in history to run a marathon in under two hours. To maintain elite
performance, Kipchoge and the NN Running Team continually seek to
innovate across all aspects of their training program, evaluating
everything from race planning, nutrition and hydration to clothing
and footwear. As the first product of its kind, Abbott's biosensor
empowers the runners to tap into real-time molecular data to
monitor their glucose levels and help them design personalized
nutrition plans.
"We've utilized our breakthrough sensing technology to help
world-class athletes like Eliud and everyday athletes alike live up
to their optimal potential," said Duncan
Williams, divisional vice president, Biosensor Technology,
Abbott. "Libre Sense will help make glucose monitoring commonplace
in athletic performance training and enable athletes to fuel their
peak performance."
Abbott's Libre Sense, CE Marked in September 2020, is an over-the-counter product
made available in Europe that is
designed to provide continuous glucose monitoring via a mobile
appiii and wrist readersiv to athletes.
Athletes wear the small round biosensor (approximately the size of
a two Euro coin) on the back of their
upper arm. Worn for up to 14 days, the biosensor provides real-time
glucose values through a mobile app developed by Supersapiens, a
sports technology company focused on improving athletic
performance. Abbott's biosensor and Supersapiens app are designed
to help athletes understand the efficacy of their nutrition choices
in training and competition.
Abbott is providing Kipchoge and the NN Running Team members
with Abbott's biosensors for training, as well as collaborating to
develop personalized insights into their athletic performance.
Kipchoge and the NN Running Team will provide key learnings, share
their experiences and educate athletes worldwide to better
understand the link between nutrition and performance.
To prepare for the NN Mission Marathon, their last competitive
marathon before the Olympic Games, Eliud and the NN Running Team
have been training in Kenya using
Libre Sense for the past month.
"After training with Abbott's biosensor, we've been able to
quickly develop new insights into high-performance, endurance
training nutrition and hydration. For example, we are exploring a
shift in timing of pre-race and race-time carbohydrate fueling to
net maximum benefits," said Valentijn Trouw, performance director
of NN Running Team and Global Sports Communications. "Abbott's
biosensor enables us to build personalized nutrition plans based on
glucose data in order to deliver peak athletic performance and a
competitive advantage. The NN Mission Marathon will be an excellent
opportunity to show how important glucose insights can make a real
difference in performance."
To see Kipchoge and the NN Running Teams training sessions in
Kenya with the Abbott biosensor,
click here.
About Abbott Libre Sense Glucose Sport System
The
Abbott Libre Sense Glucose Sport Biosensor is intended for athletes
(aged 16+ years) to measure glucose. Athletes are defined as
individuals who perform exercise and train with the purpose of
improving fueling and performance. The biosensor allows athletes to
correlate their glucose levels and their athletic performance. The
biosensor is not intended for use in the diagnosis, treatment, or
monitoring of a disease.
The product is available across eight European countries:
Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
For more information about Abbott's biosensor, visit
LibreSense.com. For more information about the app, visit
Supersapiens.com.
About Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that
helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio
of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare,
with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical
devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 109,000
colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on LinkedIn at
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@AbbottGlobal.
i Data on file, Abbott Diabetes Care. Data based on
the number of users worldwide for the FreeStyle Libre system
compared to the number of users for other leading personal use,
sensor-based glucose monitoring systems.
ii The biosensor is the world's first continuous
glucose biosensor specifically designed for athletes; data on file,
Abbott.
iii Biosensor is designed to work with compatible
partner mobile apps.
iv The biosensor is designed to automatically
stream glucose data every minute, via Bluetooth®
wireless technology, and it is designed to work with compatible
mobile apps and wrist readers (wrist readers are currently in
development).
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