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Smith+Nephew (LSE:SN, NYSE:SNN), the global medical technology company, announces it will once again support select players during high profile matches at The Championships, Wimbledon in 2025. The world’s oldest and most prestigious tennis tournament serves as a perfect backdrop to showcase Smith+Nephew’s purpose of ‘Life Unlimited’ - making a difference in patients’ lives through the excellence of a diverse Sports Medicine product portfolio and the application of new technologies.
Tennis is a high-impact sport that places great stress on various areas of the body – especially joints – often resulting in injury. Some of the latest technologies and solutions from Smith+Nephew for joint repair include:
“Our inaugural turn sponsoring select players during The Championships, Wimbledon in 2024 was a tremendous success supporting athletes from across the globe - including Jasmine Paolini all the way to the Ladies Final,” said Christie van Geffen, SVP Global Sports Medicine Marketing for Smith+Nephew. “We were able to uniquely feature the Smith+Nephew brand along with our leading Sports Medicine technology portfolio - designed to help weekend warriors and world-class athletes get back to competing and doing what they love.”
If you would like to learn more about Smith+Nephew’s leading Sports Medicine technology portfolio – including the CARTIHEAL AGILI-C Cartilage Repair Implant, the REGENETEN Bioinductive Implant and the Q-FIX KNOTLESS All-Suture Anchor - please visithere.
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Smith+Nephew is a portfolio medical technology business focused on the repair, regeneration and replacement of soft and hard tissue. We exist to restore people’s bodies and their self-belief by using technology to take the limits off living. We call this purpose ‘Life Unlimited’. Our 17,000 employees deliver this mission every day, making a difference to patients’ lives through the excellence of our product portfolio, and the invention and application of new technologies across our three global business units of Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine & ENT and Advanced Wound Management.
Founded in Hull, UK, in 1856, we now operate in around 100 countries, and generated annual sales of $5.8 billion in 2024. Smith+Nephew is a constituent of the FTSE100 (LSE:SN, NYSE:SNN). The terms ‘Group’ and ‘Smith+Nephew’ are used to refer to Smith & Nephew plc and its consolidated subsidiaries, unless the context requires otherwise.
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