iRunFar covered the 2025 World Mountain and Trail Running Champs this past week in Canfranc, Spain! Catch up with our results articles from the Trail World Champs Long Trail and Short Trail races, as well as the World Mountain Running Champs Uphill and Up and Down races.

Sunmaya Budha Post-2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail Interview

A video interview with Sunmaya Budha after her second-place finish at the 2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail.

By on September 28, 2025 | Comments

Nepal’s Sunmaya Budha ran a strong race to finish second at the 2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail. In the following interview, our first with Sunmaya, she talks about growing up in Nepal, how she got into trail running, how her race played out — including running with Italy’s Fabiola Conti for the middle part of the race — and her goals for future world championships events.

For more on how the race played out, read our in-depth 2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail results article.

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

Sunmaya Budha Post-2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail Interview Transcript

Transcript coming soon.

Meghan Hicks

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.