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Paweł Woicki

Polish volleyball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ1758629 ↗
Source-derived summary

Paweł Mateusz Woicki (born 19 June 1983) is a Polish professional volleyball coach and former player. He was a member of the Poland national team from 2005 to 2016, a participant in the Olympic Games Beijing 2008 and the 2009 European Champion. He is currently head coach of China's U21 team.

Personal life

He is married to Joanna. In 2009 his wife gave birth to their son Mateusz.

Career

Club

In 2013, Woicki signed a contract with Transfer Bydgoszcz. After two years he decided to move to Indykpol AZS Olsztyn.

National team

In 2009 he achieved the title of European Champion. On September 14, 2009 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of Polonia Restituta. The Order was conferred on the following day by the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Paweł Woicki” is polish volleyball player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Paweł, Woicki and Polish, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 2005, 2016, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1983-06-29. For this dossier, Paweł, Woicki and Polish is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “polish volleyball player” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1758629. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1983, 2005, 2016 and 2008.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Paweł Woicki” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.