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Stanisław Motyka

Polish Olympic skier (1906-1941)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ9342621 ↗
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Stanisław Motyka (6 May 1906 – 7 July 1941) was a Polish skier. He competed in the Nordic combined event at the 1928 Winter Olympics.

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“Stanisław Motyka” enters the record as polish Olympic skier (1906-1941). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Stanisław, Motyka and Polish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1906, 1941, 1928—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1906-05-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Stanisław, Motyka and Polish.
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“Stanisław Motyka” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Stanisław, Motyka and Polish provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q9342621. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1906, 1941 and 1928.

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This entry incorporates text from “Stanisław Motyka” 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.