NEWS from Orkney’s
William Sichel
www.williamsichel.co.uk
Sponsors:
Myprotein, Loganair & The Orcadian
Sichel attempts first British record over 6 days in Monaco
Orkney ultra distance athlete, William Sichel, travels to the Principality of Monaco later this week for his first serious British record attempt at the Monaco “No Finish Line” Six Day race from Saturday November 17th to Friday 23rd.
William is going for the 19 year old British road record of 518 miles set by England’s Richard Brown in New York in 1988.
The Six Day event has a long history with records and performances going right back to the 1800’s and the era of the ‘pedestrians’ – the professional athletes of the day.
For this attempt William is returning to the venue where he won his debut Six Day event last year, setting a course record and world best distance for the year of 478.6 miles.
“It is a pretty good course around the spectacular harbour in Monaco. I know the set up and feel it is a good race to make the record attempt.”
William is still fresh from his epic run in the Greek Spartathlon in late September where he knocked over 4 hours off his best time for the event, an improvement of over 12% on his previous performance.
“I need an improvement of 8% over my Six Day distance from last year. That’s quite a lot but I feel that if I don’t have any major problems and the weather is reasonable I’ve got a good chance.”
William’s main crew man will be Dundee’s Alan Young and he will be joined by Manchester’s Tim Rainey for the last two days.
In order that people can follow his progress William has arranged for his web site www.williamsichel.co.uk to be updated throughout the record attempt.
BBC Radio Orkney will also carry updates from November 19th -23rd. They will report on William’s progress in their morning news programme “Around Orkney” from Monday to Friday.
Listen again here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/radioscotland/programmes/orkney/
William is grateful to sponsors: Myprotein, Loganair & The Orcadian
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11/11/07
Photos:
- The Monaco course
- William setting a new Scottish event record on the Greek Spartathlon in September.
Editor’s Notes
William is the current World No1 for the Six Day event after winning in Monaco in November last year with 478.6 miles/770.247kms.
William is the current Scottish 48 Hour record holder with 213.9 miles.
William currently lies 5th on the “All time” list of British road 24 hour performances with his run of 153.3 miles/246.70km in 2000.
William is a member of the Orkney Athletic Club and in November 2006 was honoured by the Orkney Islands Council for “outstanding achievements in sport”.
With his wife, Elizabeth, he runs the Orkney Angora (hand dyeing specialists) mail order business in Sanday, Orkney.
Although born in the Northamptonshire village of Welford and brought up in the south east of England, William has lived in the Orkney island of Sanday since 1982.
Free-to-use photos available here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/williamsichel/
Making contact:
William Sichel, Upper Breckan, Sanday, Orkney KW17 2AZ.
Tel: 01857 600421; Fax: 0709 288 3499; Mobile 0794 128 3506.
[email protected] Web site: http://www.williamsichel.co.uk/
William’s CV:
Scottish event record in the world’s longest point-to-point race – the 153 mile "Spartathlon" in Greece (2007)
First Scottish Record- Indoor 48 Hour 344.267km/213.92 miles (2007)
World No1 for the Six Day event with 770.247km/478.60 miles, Monaco course record & outright winner (2006)
British event record in the 29th running of the "World’s Hottest Race" the Badwater Ultramarathon (2006)
First Scot, ever, to complete the world’s longest point-to-point race – the 153 mile "Spartathlon" in Greece (2005)
"Across the Years" 24hr, Phoenix, Arizona, outright winner (2005)
World 24Hr Championships Age-Group Silver (2004)
Guinness World Records (treadmill) 100 miles & 24hrs (2002)
World 24hr ranking No12 (1998 & 2000)
Basel 24 Hr, Switzerland, outright winner (2000)
British 100km Champion (1999)
Masters World 100km Champion (1998)
European 100km Championships: Team bronze medal (1997)
Scottish 100km Champion (1994)
Ranked in the Top 2 in Britain every year 1998-2005 in the 24 hour event.
Represented Great Britain 11 times since 1996:100km team x 8 & 24hr team x 3
William’s Personal Bests
Marathon: 2:38:17 (1995)
100km: 7:07:49 (1996)
12hr: Track 141.50km/87.92 miles (2001)
24hr: 246.70km/153.30M (2000)
48hr: 344.267km/213.92 miles (2007)
Six Days: 770.247km/478.6 miles (2006)
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