QP Sport or Quality Performers Limited design and manufacture a world leading range of breast and chest protection products. We are dedicated to women’s health and wellbeing and are the only company worldwide that focuses on making breast and chest protection equipment.
It’s no accident that our products are the best. We work with some of the best universities in the world on sports science and breast impact study (Sheffield-Hallam University in Sheffield UK) and breast biomechanics (motion control) and health (University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth UK).
As a New Zealand company based in New Plymouth, on NZ's North Island, we have exported our quality chest guards to the world since 1981, and have been a major influence in female chest protection for a wide variety of sports.
Our NZ manufacturing and development facility uses state of the art equipment and allows us to develop and test new products and features. We have won exporting and business awards for our work, and also gained many supporters around the world for our products.
Our products are standard equipment for Fencing, Karate and other Martial Arts and are sold to most of the major brands in these sports either as QP Sport brand or as customer branded. All our products exceed relevant CE (European) certification, and are regarded for their high quality and dependability – and in a safety product where your body is on the line, you should use something you can trust.
Many sporting codes and individuals endorse our products, and our mission is to make the best chest guards for men and women. We are always interested in feedback on our products, so please contact us.
It all began back in 1978 when nuns from a local girls school looked to find a chest protector for their girls playing soccer/ football. An orthotics specialist from the local hospital developed the first women’s chest guard prototypes, and QP Sport was established in 1981 to manufacture and market the product.
Sales were minor until 1990 when the sports of Martial Arts, then Fencing around the world discovered first EconoGuard, then later the newer MaxiGuard and CoolGuard products.
Now, many sporting codes use our chest guard products including;
There is more detail on the history of QP Sport in a feature profile of the company originally published by the Taranaki Daily News.