And so the spiked golf shoe was born. Although today’s spikes – or ‘cleats’ for our American readers – are unrecognisable from those of the past and they are now soft plastic rather than ...

‘Every shoe company has stepped up’ New Balance, which also had ‘super spikes’ in Tokyo, and Brooks are among those brands ...

“We serve all the athletes in all those different events equally and we put the same focus into the javelin boot as we do the 100-meter shoe.” The Nike Maxfly 2 is an updated sprinter's spike ...

Although the associations between high-heeled shoes and injury were clear, its difficult to prove that heel-to-toe drop ...

In the late 1890s a British company called J.W. Foster and Sons (now known as Reebok) developed some of the earliest known running shoes with spikes in them. The company's founder, Joseph William ...

Top Japanese sprinter Yoshihide Kiryu scoffed when he first saw Asics Corp.'s spikeless track shoes, featuring a honeycombed carbon fiber outer sole, eschewing metal spikes. “Did you really ...