Year: 2025
Award: Ultra Runner
Location/Affiliation: Professional
Leadville Trail 100 Champion and course record holder, first woman to finish in under 18 hours
At work, Dr. Anne Flower puts in marathon shifts saving lives in the ER. To relax, she ultra-runs. Last year, Anne took on the legendary Leadville Trail 100 — and shattered a 31-year course record, becoming the first woman to finish under 18 hours… in her very first 100-mile race. Then, she set a new women’s 50-mile world record at the Tunnel Hill Trail Race. However, Anne’s impact stretches far beyond the trails. An emergency medicine physician at UCHealth in Colorado Springs, she draws powerful parallels between the resilience required in the ER and on the course. Days after her Leadville victory, she was back caring for patients and as a co-founder of Mountains to Mountains, she helps bring critical medical resources to remote communities, blending endurance, service, and leadership in extraordinary ways. Whether healing patients or breaking records, Anne embodies compassion and grit as healer, a record-breaker, and an inspiration.
