Catapult Sports
| Catapult Group International LTD | |
| Public | |
| Traded as | ASX: CAT |
| Industry | Sport, Technology |
| Founder | Shaun Holthouse Igor van de Griendt |
| Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Joe Powell (CEO) Shaun Holthouse (Founder, Head of Strategy) Igor van de Griendt (Founder, CTO) Adir Shiffman (Chairman) Matt Bairos (CEO of Americas) Barry McNeill (CEO, EMEA, APAC) |
| Website | catapultsports |
Catapult Sports is an ASX-listed analytics company that provides performance technology to over 1500 teams across 35 sports worldwide. The company is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, with over 300 staff in ten locations around the world.
The company builds and improves the performance of athletes and teams; optimising standard of play, mitigating the risk of injury, and quantifying the return to competition.
Catapult’s marquee product is the OptimEye S5, a GNSS-enabled monitor that accesses both GPS and GLONASS satellites, sourcing real-time data and sports specific insights from inertial sensor metrics.
Catapult, in conjunction with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) developed ClearSky, a local positioning system (LPS) that delivers pinpoint positional and inertial data regardless of environment.
Catapult also invented the world's first goalkeeper monitor, the G5, which quantifies dives (direction and intensity), jumps, accelerations, decelerations, changes of direction, repeat high intensity efforts, and time to recovery.
Through its acquisition of GPSports, XOS Digital, PlayerTek, SportsMedElite and Baseline Athlete Management Systems over the past few years, Catapult now offers video technology, GPS systems for semi-professional sports teams and amateur football players in addition to athlete management systems.
The company was founded by two engineers, Shaun Holthouse and Igor van de Griendt, who were working with the Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) during a project with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in 2001. The AIS were looking to use microtechnology to replace laboratory-based performance testing as athletes were not exerting themselves in the same way as they do in competition. Catapult was launched as a business in 2006 and became a publicly listed company on the Australian Stock Exchange in 2014.
Teams such as Brazil, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Saracens and the Australian Cricket Team have all used Catapult, as well as organisations, leagues and governing bodies such as the England and Wales Cricket Board, NRL and La Liga.
Catapult was named twelfth on Fast Company's 2015 list of 50 Most Innovative Companies. They also came first in the Big Data and Fitness categories.
In 2017, Catapult won the Cutting Edge Sport award at the BT Sport Industry Awards for their project with England and Wales Cricket Board.
In September 2013, Catapult along with CSIRO, won the Engineering Australia President's Award, recognised for its revolutionary technology that is able to eliminate current limitations in GPS poor environments in order to track elite athletes; fulfilling a growing need by coaches and broadcast media for accurate results.
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