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Saucony Endorphin Elite 3 Carbon Plate Redesign: More Speedroll and Rear Stability!
Dec 10, 2025
Luca Ciccone, Saucony's Global Footwear Engineering Director shares the Endorphin Elite 3's (July 2026) plate redesign details
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Luca Chicone, the global director
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footwear engineering at Sock and he gave
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us an overview of how the plate in the
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Endorphin Elite 3 has been modified to
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accentuate the speed roll but also
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stabilize all that incredible rear
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incred.
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What do we got going?
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We have going on here. This is the new
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midsole design on the Elite 3. And I
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brought this specifically due to the
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fact that Incredun as a phone has been a
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huge hit for us. It's truly disrupted
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what Hyperones and Hyper shoes are
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bringing to the table for your ultimate
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race day excitement. The one thing that
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we did look at, especially on the Elite
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3, was the carbon fiber plate. As you
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know, we had the original technology for
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these slotted plates which helped
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articulate through the forefoot to help
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add some natural movement through your
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gate cycle. But something that we found
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was with the foam, we wanted to aid in
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that stability. We wanted to enhance
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speed roll technology on tow off. This
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is where building in these ridges. As
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you can see here, this is the the
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stiffness that's adding far more into
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these fingers, specifically on the
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carbon fiber plate, which is adding a
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whole new experience that's wrapped up
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with a foam that's already proving
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itself as
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So, will I feel like a even more
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pronounced forward roll?
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Yes, you will. And what about the rear
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the softness of the rear? That's
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the rear the rear softness. It's why we
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specifically engineered the plate in a
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way where we were extending back many of
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the ridges that'll add
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correct. This went through a few
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iterations. We ended up landing in this
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zone for the geometry in order to
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provide that maximum stability factor
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while telling the story around the the
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non-Newtonian effect that the phone
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provides when you're putting your
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maximum effort into it. Now, um, if you
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can say when will more or less the Elite
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3 come?
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The Elite 3 will come in July of 2026.
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Oh, thank you. Yeah. Okay, great. Thank
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you, Luca.
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Thank you, sir.
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Great stuff from Sakin. Super duper
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phones.
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Super duper phones.
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Thank you.
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Thank you. Okay.