Claudia Glass

About

Claudia Glass, Founder From Swimrun Bras to the First Intelligent Sports Bra While running during summer vacations, I longed to swim afterward, but my sports bra and shorts weren’t up to the challenge. After finding no hybrid gear that worked both on land and in water, I decided to create it myself. Collaborating with scientists and textile engineers at Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), we developed a fast-drying, high-tech fabric and designed the Swijin double-layer bra, offering land support and swimsuit-like compression. After a newspaper article about our research, elite Swiss athletes approached us, seeking a sports bra that truly addressed their needs. Despite many sports bras on the market, none solved key issues: poor support, slow drying, chafing, and restrictive underbust bands. This sparked a new mission: to reinvent the sports bra with input from sports physiologists, textile engineers, and elite athletes. We created bras with underb

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Zürich, Switzerland