ITS OFFICIAL! SICHEL IS A DOUBLE WORLD RECORD HOLDER

Sanday runner, William Sichel, has received notification from Guinness World Records that, following scrutiny of all evidence, they have approved the world treadmill records set by William at the Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall on November 30th/December 1st last year.

William will shortly receive the coveted Guinness World Record certificates for the ‘Fastest time to 100 miles on a treadmill (20hrs 31mins)’ and for ‘Distance run in 24hrs on a treadmill (112.46 miles)’.

“I’m relieved that, after all the care that we took, the records have now been ratified. I would like to thank all those who helped to make that possible.”

This doesn’t mean that William’s performances will appear in the next Guinness World Records book – formerly known as the Guinness Book of Records – as the book contains less than 10% of all the records held on file. Similarly with their web site. If William’s records are still current when the book goes to press later this year then it will be an editorial decision whether they are included or not in the book.

William is currently well into his winter training which is going very well – in fact the best since 2001, as last winter was disrupted by a persistent shin injury.

“I’m very pleased with how things are going now and I’m really looking forward to a very challenging season fast approaching. My first warm-up race is the Barry 40 mile track race in south Wales on March 2nd. Following that I will have 2 weeks warm weather training in northern Majorca. This will hopefully set me up well for the Basle International 24hr road race in Switzerland where I will be going for the UK Athletics’ European 24hr Championships qualifying distance of 140 miles.”

William was voted Orkney’s first ‘Sportsman of the Year’ in November 2000. He is a member of the Moray Road Runners and the Orkney Athletic Club. With his wife, Elizabeth, he runs the Orkney Angora mail order knitwear business in Sanday.

William is grateful to sponsors Orkney Meat (main sponsor), The Ayre Hotel, The Orcadian and Crantit Dairy (Orkney Ice Cream).

Making contact:
William Sichel, Upper Breckan, Sanday, Orkney KW17 2AZ. Tel/Fax: 01857 600421. Mobile (whilst travelling only) 0794 128 3506. william@williamsichel.co.uk Running web site: www.williamsichel.co.uk

Photographs:
Newsline Scotland (Press Agency). Tel 01224 594000. photos@newsline-scotland.co.uk
Ken Amer, Orkney Photographic. Tel 01856 873574, Mobile 07808 961780 info@orkneyphotographic.co.uk

William Sichel, ‘Free to use’ photographs can be down loaded from my on-line photo album. Go to: www.williamsichel.co.uk and click on ‘Photos’.

3/2/03