Endurance Asia Awards 2025

About this episode

In this special awards episode, we recap the highlights of 2025 and discuss the stories and athletes that made an impact.

It’s that time of year ago before the adventure season kicks off where we are joined by Chris Timms to recap the highlights of 2025. In this special awards episode, we discuss the stories that moved us and the people who mattered. Here are the categories and nominees: Male Athlete of the Year Hisashi Kitamura, with his win at TMBT Lodowijk Vriens, wins in HK and Bali and top 10 in Cape Town John Stingray Onifa, with multiple wins across Asia Guangfu Meng, 2nd win at HK100 and win at Chiang Mai by UTMB Female Athlete of the Year Sunmaya Budha, 2nd in WMTRC and an miraculous win in Cape Town Hau Ha, another amazing year with wins in Tsiagu and Chiang Mai by UTMB Fuzhao Xiang, 2nd place at Western States and wins across many shorter distances across Asia Veronika Leng, 2nd place at HK100 on her comeback and 5th at CCC Race / Challenge of the Year World Trail Majors Hong Kong 100 Vietnam Mountain Marathon Asia Trail Masters Penang Skyrace Izu Trail Journey Japan UTMB TransLantau  Chiang Mai Others Tsaigu Trail  Godzone Endurance Feat of the Year Stone Tsang solo traverse across Taiwan Grant “Axe” Rawlinson and Luke Richmond Row across “The Ditch” Fundraising of the Year…

People in this episode

Guest: Chris Timms

Topics covered

• awards
• athletes
• endurance sports
• fundraising
• highlights
• challenges

Keywords

• Endurance Asia Awards
• athletes
• fundraising
• endurance sports
• 2025 highlights
• challenges

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