Annie Sanders

Annie Sanders, whose full first name is Anastasia, is an American rock climber, born on 22 July 2007, who specialises in competition climbing with an emphasis on bouldering, lead and the combined discipline. She came to international attention at the 2021 IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships in Voronezh, where she won gold in all three Youth B under 16 events before the age of 15. In the same year she flashed the sport climbing route Omaha Beach, graded 5.14a or 8b+, at the Red River Gorge, a route regarded as an extreme standard of difficulty in outdoor sport climbing. In 2025 she became the first American woman to win IFSC World Cup titles in both lead and bouldering, and the Olympics website has described her as a teenage sensation in the sport.