Lille, France, October 24, 2022 / PRNewswire / -- On October 20, 2022, the Reveal Innovation 2022 Decathlon Awards were held in Lille, France. As the annual innovation ceremony of Decathlon, this event will share the grand event with sports fans from more than 45 countries and regions in the form of online and offline linkage, witness the glorious moment of annual innovation and excellent products, and explore the new trend of the industry's future development.

Grand scene, after a fierce contest, with unique creative ingenuity and design concept, the star tent, city long electric bicycle, edible packaging gels and desciption of wear lightweight jacket off finally emerge from 16 product, respectively, the award for design innovation, technology innovation, ecological design innovation and the use of the four categories of annual innovation awards.

Decathlon 2022 Innovation Awards ceremony

Innovation ceremony foresight layout focus on the future

Since 2005, Decathlon Innovation Awards has been held for 18 consecutive years. All the winning products are voted by Decathlon's internal and external sports users. While celebrating innovation, the event also explores future trends and changes in the sports market.

This year, Decathlon Innovation Award is divided into four categories: design innovation, technology innovation, ecological design innovation and application innovation, which fully demonstrates Decathlon's original innovation concept and practical results. After several months of screening, 16 shortlisted products covering outdoor hiking, camping, mountain cycling, water, fitness, ball games and other sports scenes were presented at the ceremony one by one, and the annual ultimate award was decided by online and offline audience voting in more than 45 countries and regions.

Decathlon China Online synchronously share the global grand ceremony scene

In the design innovation category, Airseconds Skyview, an inflatable collapsible camping tent that allows you to enjoy the sky at any time even if you sit back in the tent, won the first prize in the design innovation category because of its practical features such as texture appearance and large space. Scientific and technological innovation aims to encourage design teams to explore more paths in technical processes, which not only meet user habits but also meet new needs. In this category, the grand prize was awarded to the Long Distance 920 E Connected bike for cyclists. Equipped with the leading automatic transmission, users can easily enjoy riding in a variety of terrain and road conditions without shifting gears.

Decathlon Camping Star tent

In order to reduce plastic pollution, the Decathlon design team never stops exploring bold innovations in alternative materials. The edible Gel Pod, which is wrapped in a membrane made of seaweed and plants, promotes a more responsible enjoyment of sports, and finally won the ecological design creativity award. The Decathlon Ultralight Second makes it easy to instantly switch between belt and Jacket mode in the face of unpredictable weather conditions when hiking outdoors. Because of breaking the conventional cognition and broadening the use scene, this ultra-light outdoor single product, which is waterproof and windproof and only weighs 200 grams, has become the best innovative product in users' mind.

Decathlon "Use Innovation" Award winning ultralight jacket

"The spirit of innovation at Decathlon is everywhere," said Barbara Martin Coppola, CEO of Decathlon Group. Innovation is the first step in creation and the seed from which we continue to develop amazing products. Through innovation, we can create the future of the sports industry with forward-looking thinking, inclusiveness and adaptability."

Explore new development opportunities through innovation and energy accumulation

Innovation is the DNA of Decathlon and the core of product design. Decathlon encourages the team to think out of the box on the basis of ensuring product performance, meeting users' sports needs and protecting sports safety, boldly using new materials, using new technology and imagining new designs. Meanwhile, in order to abide by the commitment of environmental protection, from the beginning of product design, from the perspective of sustainable development, Create sports products and sports solutions that use fewer natural resources and have less impact on the environment.

In addition, based on the in-depth insight into users' habits and needs, decathlon constantly brings out the new, and creates products and services that meet users' known and unknown needs. For example, being keenly aware of the increasing awareness of environmental protection among consumers, decathlon started to launch a green campaign market several years ago, and actively launched a "Green Action" that integrates the promotion of sports and environmental protection public welfare. In terms of consumer interaction, every city organizes such green actions at least once a year. At the product level, Decathlon can find eco-design products in all sports categories, and Decathlon promises to achieve 100% eco-design of products by 2026.

Decathlon China vice President wang graceful said, in the face of the growing quality, diversified user demand, decathlon always keep pace with The Times, constantly introduce innovative motion of the solution at the same time, also with an eye to make sports ecosystem in China and the world, with health, science and technology, life style, such as industrial integration development, covering more rich sports scene, Explore new opportunities for industry growth.

At present, Decathlon has 850 product engineers, 300 designers, more than 900 registered patents, and 10 design centers in France. With strong technical innovation and R&D strength, Decathlon launches about 2800 new products every year. At the same time, decathlon also extends its global innovative products and experience to the Chinese market, combines with the fitness and sports needs of Chinese people, and constantly creates products and solutions to improve consumers' exercise experience, helping to build a healthy China.

About Decathlon Group

Decathlon Group, a world-renowned comprehensive sports goods group, is a full-chain company integrating sports goods research and development, design, production, branding, logistics and omni-channel sales. It was founded by Mr. Michel Leclercq in Lille in 1976. Decathlon focuses on the mass sports market, and is committed to bringing all sports together under the same roof, so that sports can be reached at your fingertips, and the benefits of sports can be shared by the most extensive public. As of 2021, Decathlon has opened 1,747 stores in 70 countries and regions on 6 continents with a team of 105,000 people. The group has production lines in 21 countries and regions around the world, and more than 50% of its products come from China. Decathlon officially entered China in 2003, opened the first entity concept store in Asia, and realized the complete layout of the whole industrial chain of the group in China. Through online and offline channels, Decathlon provides professional products and one-stop sports experience service for the sports public in nearly 400 cities across the country.