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Piotr Świderski

Polish speedway rider

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ7197039 ↗
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Piotr Świderski (born 11 May 1983 in Rawicz, Poland) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Poland.

Career history

In his native Poland, Świderski rode for 15 seasons from 2002 until 2016. During the 2011 Polish speedway season, Świderski broke his leg while riding for Wrocław.

Świderski rode for the Peterborough Panthers in 2006 and 2007 before being loaned out to Ipswich from 2008 to 2009. After being dropped by Ipswich he went on to ride for Lakeside Hammers in the British Elite League.

In 2015, he signed for Leicester Lions to replace the retired Lewis Bridger, which turned out to be his final season in British speedway.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Piotr Świderski” as polish speedway rider. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 2002, 2016, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1983-05-11. The account is most persuasive where Piotr, Świderski and Polish can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as polish speedway rider. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7197039. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1983, 2002, 2016 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Piotr Świderski” 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.