RIDER PROFILE: Anne-flore Marxer
With powerful and fearless riding, Anne-Flore is amongst a handful of ladies who have stepped up to street rails, backcountry and larger jumps with success and style. On the hill her explosive riding has placed her on the fast track of progression. Anne-Flore started making a name for herself by entering a couple contest and winning, since then she has dedicated her winters to filming, earning the respect of the international snowboard scene by getting opening videoparts in leading film productions.
Anne-Flore has marked the history of snowboarding by being a leading and outspoken proponent for woman’s riding. Her sustained support was the catalyst triggering the policy of equal prize money split between men and women in the TTR tour end of season prize purse.
She was crowned Rookie of the year in 2006 by Transworld Snowboarding, was elected second most influencial female rider of all times by Slack magazine and just received the award of the best international rider (with both male and female) at “le mondial du snowboard”.
Anne-Flore is heavily featured in all core magazines earning covers of Cooler, Spare, Beachbrother, Boardlife, Whiteout Sista, Surfeuses, She, Snowplanet girl, and the list goes on.. She was also feature in some of the biggest US mainstream publications as fitness magazine and Men’s Health.
Anne-Flore’s extremely energetic personality makes everyone around her smile.. Annie Fast from Transworld Snowboarding describes Anne-Flore best : ”Some riders are part of a session, and some make a session. Anne-Flore is the latter-at the kicker, rail, or on the dance floor. She has the personality and energy to fuel them all at once.”