SICHEL UPGRADED TO WORLD SILVER

Sanday runner William Sichel (Orkney AC) has been upgraded to silver in the M50 age group in October's World & European 24 hour Championships held in Brno, Czech Republic. This follows a mistake in the classification of an American runner.

William has also been featured in last week's Athletics Weekly magazine, the 'bible' of athletics in the UK.

William is a long term member of the Orkney Athletic Club and has represented Great Britain 11 times at ultra distance running since 1996. William set new Guinness World Records for both 100 miles and 24hrs on the treadmill in December 2002. With his wife, Elizabeth, he runs the Orkney Angora mail order knitwear business in Sanday, Orkney.

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

William's running web site, which is being developed as a resource for ultra running in general, can be found at www.williamsichel.co.uk

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: http://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: http://www.williamsichel.co.uk/ and click on ‘Photos'.

8/11/04