William Sichel

William Morley Sichel is a British ultra distance runner born in Welford, Northamptonshire, in 1953, who moved to the Orkney island of Sanday in 1982. He won his debut races at 100 kilometres, 24 hours, three, six, seven and eight days, was ranked world number one for the six day event in 2006 and has represented Great Britain eleven times since 1996. He won the Monaco Six Day race in 2006 and 2007, finished seventh at the 2006 Badwater Ultramarathon in a record time for a British runner, and set a Scottish all-time six day track record of 857.070 kilometres in 2008. In 2014 he completed the 3100 Mile Race in New York in 50 days, the first Briton inside the time limit and the first runner over sixty to finish.