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Marion Delespierre Pre-2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail Interview

A video interview with Marion Delespierre before the 2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail.

By on September 24, 2025 | Comments
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France’s Marion Delespierre returns to the 2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail as the event’s defending champion, having won the last edition in 2023. In the following interview, Marion talks about what it feels like to come back two years later as a mother and how everything about her life is different, what it’s like being part of Team France, and what a good day out on the course would look like for her.

For more on who’s racing, check out our in-depth women’s and men’s previews and follow our live race coverage on Saturday.

[Editor’s Note: If you are unable to see the video above, click here to access it.]

Marion Delespierre Pre-2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail Interview Transcript

Transcript coming soon.

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Meghan Hicks is the Editor-in-Chief of iRunFar. She’s been running since she was 13 years old, and writing and editing about the sport for more than 15 years. She served as iRunFar’s Managing Editor from 2013 through mid-2023, when she stepped into the role of Editor-in-Chief. Aside from iRunFar, Meghan is the Board President of the Hardrock Hundred Endurance Run, has worked in communications and education in several of America’s national parks, was a contributing editor for Trail Runner magazine, and served as a columnist at Marathon & Beyond. She’s the co-author of Where the Road Ends: A Guide to Trail Running with Bryon Powell. She won the 2013 Marathon des Sables, finished on the podium of the Hardrock 100 Mile in 2021, and has previously set fastest known times on the Nolan’s 14 mountain running route in 2016 and 2020. Based part-time in Moab, Utah and Silverton, Colorado, Meghan also enjoys reading, biking, backpacking, and watching sunsets.