Huawei has announced a partnership with Eliud Kipchoge that will see the marathon great work with the company on the development of a new running-focused smartwatch.
The collaboration is part of Huawei’s wider agreement with the dsm-firmenich Running Team, formerly the NN Running Team, which Kipchoge has been a central figure in for over a decade. Huawei has been named the team’s official technology partner.
According to Huawei, Kipchoge will work directly with its research and development teams, providing feedback and training data to help shape the next generation of the company’s running and health-tracking technology.
The company says the aim is to improve the accuracy and usefulness of its performance metrics, particularly for long-distance runners, but specific product details have not yet been announced.
For Huawei, the partnership makes it clear that they are making a further push into the endurance sports space. The company has been active in the wearables market for more than a decade and reported shipping over 200 million wearable devices worldwide by mid-2025. Its presence in performance running, however, remains relatively new.
Huawei first entered the running-specific watch market in 2021 with the WATCH GT Runner. The upcoming device will be the company’s first major running watch release since then, developed with input from elite athletes.
The partnership with Kipchoge and the dsm-firmenich Running Team is expected to continue throughout the development process, with Huawei using insights from training and competition to inform future updates to its wearable platform.
