Garmin wins “Best Sports & Fitness” award
Garmin is known for its technology products and has just added 6 prestigious CES 2024 Innovation Awards to its trophy showcase. These awards recognize outstanding design and engineering in various consumer technology product categories. The honoured products include the Venu 3 smartwatch, the Epix Pro smartwatch, and the MARQ Golfer—Carbon Edition with the first of those (Venu) being a category winner
Here’s a breakdown of the award-winning products:
Venu 3 Smartwatch
Best of Innovation Winner; Sports & Fitness Category Honoree; Accessibility Category Honoree
Venu 3 added wheelchair-specific features earlier this year, specifically to keep track of daily wheelchair pushes and alerts about weight shifts. Also included were special sports apps and workouts tailored for wheelchair users. Then, to make these features more meaningful for wheelchair users, certain existing features’ algorithms were tailored to wheelchair users.
epix Pro & MARQ Golfer-Carbon Smartwatches
Two Wearable Technologies Category Honorees
Take Out
These are all great smartwatches and it’s great that a large company like Garmin devotes the resources to accessibility features where others don’t.
How much these awards mean is another matter entirely. I suspect being an exhibitor at CES2024 helps to win an award there.
Garmin plans to showcase these award-winning products at CES 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Last Updated on 27 January 2026 by the5krunner
My favourite kit and nutrition
- Injinji – Runners protect your toes. Avoid discomfort and minor injury. Run more. Run faster. I use them.
- Garmin 90-degree charging adapter — A small keyring adapter you can use anywhere. Essential when away. I use one.
- Garmin charging puck — the fastest and most reliable way to top up your Garmin before a session. I use one.
- Ravemen FR300 — Front light that mounts directly under your Garmin or Wahoo head unit. Keeps your bars clean and your beam pointed where it matters. I use one.
- Body Glide – The blue anti-chafe stick that all swimmers and many runners use. I use it.
- Maurten — The race nutrition trusted by elite athletes. Gels and drink mixes engineered to be easy on the stomach. I use them.
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- Favero Assioma Pro RS2 — The power-meter pedals most serious cyclists choose. Accurate, easy to move between bikes. I use this model.
- Garmin Forerunner 970 — A serious choice for a pro-grade triathlon watch. I use this.
- Polar H10 — My daily driver for accurate, waking HRV readings.
- Wahoo ELEMNT Roam 3 — The bike computer that has the feature Garmin lacks: usability. I use mine on most rides.
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tfk is the founder and author of the5krunner, an independent endurance sports technology publication. With 20 years of hands-on testing of GPS watches and wearables, and competing in triathlons at an international age-group level, tfk provides in-depth expert analysis of fitness technology for serious athletes and endurance sport competitors. ID
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