SAVING LIVES MADE EASIER
Kiefer Swim explored ways to improve the rescue can design and create entirely new, softer life-saving Rescue Tube solutions that would be easier to use for lifeguards and a more effective solution to stay afloat and save lives. The Kiefer Rescue Tube is now the recognized safety standard.
REINVENTING THE WAY WE SWIM
After observing freestyle swimmers performing the flip turn during races, Adolph Kiefer thought to himself, "If they can do it on their stomach, I can do it on my back". Throughout 1935 and 1936, Adolph Kiefer worked tirelessly to refine and perfect a new innovative backstroke flip turn.
SWIMSUIT INNOVATION
Today's high-tech racing swimsuits trace their origins all the way back to Kiefer Swim development of the first nylon swimsuit in 1948. Adolph Kiefer won his Olympic Gold Medal in 1936 wearing a silk suit that was standard for racers at the time. A silk shortage some years later led suit makers to switch to polyester which proved to be heavy, stiff and uncomfortable.
