THE PADDLE REGISTER · 2024 · CURRENT

Spartus Olympus

Pickleball Studio called it their favorite 14mm paddle of 2024 for pairing real pop with control, and Pickleball Effect later gave it a power-paddle award. The foam-filled-honeycomb idea was a middle path between thermoformed Gen 3 and the full-foam cores that arrived in 2025. The only knock reviewers raised was the short warranty.

List price
$199.99
Launched
September (expected first week), 2024date known to the month
Build
Honeycomb + foam (Gen 3)
Thickness
14mm
Shapes
Hybrid

photos and colorways at gospartus.com ↗

1216.35 in7.65 in5.5 in nom.14 mm
Drawn to scale from the published dimensions. Left: the face. Right: cut away to the core. An original drawing, not a product photo.
USA PICKLEBALLNot confirmed here Sanctioned amateur play.
UPA-ANot confirmed here PPA Tour and MLP.
QUIET CATEGORYNot listed USAP's under-80 dB list for noise-restricted courts.
PATENTSNo patent action known Brand-level status, from the ITC case file and settlements.

Status checked Sep 21, 2026. Lists change; confirm on the USAP and UPA-A lists before a tournament.

TIMELINE

  1. Sep 2024 LAUNCH Pickleball Studio newsletter (Aug 16 2024): Olympus 'expected first week of September'; Studio review published Sep 18 2024. pickleballstudio.beehiiv.com ↗

HOW IT IS BUILT

14mm 'Ascension Core': a polymer honeycomb whose cells are foam-filled, pitched as delivering foam-core power without expansion or break-in drift; raw carbon fiber plus fiberglass face.

  1. 114mm polymer honeycomb with foam-filled cells (Ascension Core)
  2. 2raw carbon fiber + fiberglass face
Face
Raw carbon fiber + fiberglass

Construction per pickleballstudio.com ↗

Studio review reports two swingweight figures (109–112 on court, 113 in table); table values used.

VARIANTS · PUBLISHED AND MEASURED NUMBERS

VariantShapeLength × widthHandleCoreWeightSwingweightTwistweightFrom
Olympus 14mm hybrid 16.35 × 7.65 in — 14 mm — 113 6.24 pickleballstudio.com ↗

Swingweight and twistweight are each lab's own measurement of its own sample. Unit-to-unit variance is normal.

MEASURED BY THE LABS

Pickleball StudioReview · pickleballstudio.comPickleball EffectReview · pickleballeffect.com

The register does not re-measure paddles or copy a lab's numbers wholesale. Power, pop and spin belong to the people with the radar guns; go read them.

FIELD REPORTS · AFTER YOU BUY IT

Reviewers measure a paddle new. Nobody measures it at hour sixty.

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SOURCES · MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

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