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Šiauliai BMX Track

BMX track in Lithuania

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2024
Entity authorityQ15709456 ↗
Source-derived summary

Šiauliai BMX Track is a bicycle motocross track in Šiauliai, Lithuania. Main BMX facility in Lithuania that are eligible to host international championships.

Located near to Šiauliai Arena. Opened in 2008, instead of old BMX track. Track cost over 3 million LTL.

Home base for first Olympic Lithuanian BMX cyclist Vilma Rimšaitė.

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The public source identifies “Šiauliai BMX Track” as bMX track in Lithuania. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Šiauliai, Track and track.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Šiauliai, Track and track providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q15709456. Authority coordinates are 55.917, 23.278. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Šiauliai BMX Track” 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.