Anna Pichrtová

Pichrtová was one of 41 athletes representing the Czech Republic at the 2002 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany.^[2] There she finished 11th in the women's marathon with a time of 2:37:39.^[3]

In 2004, Pichrtová finished 28th in the women's marathon at the Athens Olympics, with a time of 2:40:58.^[4] The same year she won the European Mountain Running Championships for the first time.^[5]

The following year she placed 27th at the World Championships in Helsinki,^[6] as well as winning the inaugural edition of the Obudu Ranch International Mountain Race in Nigeria.^[7] She has also won the Mount Washington Road Race in New Hampshire six times,^[8] the Mount Kinabalu Climbathon in Malaysia five times,^[1] and in 2006 was victorious at the European Mountain Running Championships in Malé Svatoňovice,^[1] the Grand Prix,^[1] and the Cinq 4000s at Sierre-Zinal in Switzerland (four times 2006-2009).^[9]

In 2007, Pichrtová won the 23rd World Mountain Running Trophy.^[10] She twice won the World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge, in 2008 (Three Peaks Race) and 2009 (Soll-Kaisermarathon).

In late 2006 Pichrtová was injured in a van accident in Nigeria while returning to the Obudu Ranch,^[11] and suffered fractures to one arm and both clavicles. After months of physiotherapy she returned to racing in June 2007.^[12]

She was born Anna Baloghová and was later known by the surname Pichrtová, before changing her name to Anna Straková. She has a daughter named Leila.^[13]