Piotr Protasiewicz (born 25 January 1975 in

Zielona Góra Zielona Góra is the largest city in Lubusz Voivodeship, located in western Poland, with 140,403 inhabitants (2021). Zielona Góra has a favourable geographical position, being close to the Polish-German border and on several international road ...

, Poland) is a Polish international speedway rider.

Career

He has ridden for the Polish national team in the

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in 1996 and

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. He was also World U-21 Champion in 1996. In October 1997, during the

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he won the GP Challenge, which ensured that he claimed a permanent slot for the 1998 Grand Prix. He would repeat this feat three years later in October 2003.

Awards

For his sport achievements, he received the Silver Cross of Merit in 2000.

Personal life

He married his girlfriend Katarzyna on 25 October 2002. They have two children. His father, Paweł was speedway rider too.

Speedway Grand Prix results

Honours

Speedway Grand Prix Speedway Grand Prix are a series of stand-alone motorcycle speedway events over the course of a season used to determine the Speedway World Champion. The series started in 1995 replacing the previous format of a single event final. The first win ...

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on b ...

- 21st place (as wild card) *

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

- 13th place *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

- 21st place *

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school s ...

- 30th place (as wild card) *

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

- 30th place (as wild card) *

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

- 20th place *

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains independence from Indonesia and ...

- 24th place (as wild card) *

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, disintegrated during reentry into Atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an 2002– ...

- 11th place *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

- 15th place *

- 18th place (as wild card) * 2006 - 16th place

World Under-21 Championship

* 1993 - 5th place * 1995 - 7th place * 1996 - World Champion

Team Speedway World Championship The Speedway World Team Cup was an annual speedway event held each year in different countries. The competition started in 1960 and was replaced with the Speedway World Cup in 2001. Format From 1960 until 1985 each team consisted of four riders ...
&
Speedway World Cup The Speedway World Cup is an annual speedway event held each year in different countries. The first edition of the competition in the current format was held in 2001 and replaced the old World Team Cup which ran from 1960 until 2000. The last edi ...

*1996 - World Champion *

- Silver medal *

- 4th place *

- World Champion * 2006 - 5th place

Individual Speedway Polish Championship The Individual Speedway Polish Championship ( Polish: ''Indywidualne Mistrzostwa Polski, IMP'') is an annual speedway event held each year organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1932. The current Polish Champion is Bartosz Zmarzlik ( S ...

*''1995 - 10th in Semi-Final'' *''1996 - 13th in Semi-Final'' *1997 - 6th place *1998 - 7th place *1999 - Polish Champion *2000 - 14th place *2001 - 13th place *2002 - 5th place *2003 - 11th place *2004 - 10th place *2005 - 4th place *2006 - 7th place

Other events

Individual Speedway Junior Polish Championship (U-21) *1995 - Silver medal

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*1993 - Silver medal *1995 - Silver medal *1997 - Polish Champion *1998 - Silver medal *1999 - Polish Champion *2000 - Polish Champion *2001 - Silver medal *2002 - Polish Champion *2003 - Bronze medal *2004 - Polish Champion *2005 - Silver medal *2006 - Silver medal

Polish Pairs Speedway Junior Championship The Polish Pairs Speedway Junior Championship ( pl, Młodzieżowe Mistrzostwa Polski Par Klubowych, MMPPK) is an annual speedway event held each year in different Polish clubs organized by the Polish Motor Union since 1983. First edition was in 19 ...

(U-21) *1993 - Bronze medal

Team Speedway Polish Championship The Team Speedway Polish Championship ( Polish: ''Drużynowe Mistrzostwa Polski, DMP'') is an annual speedway event held each year in different Polish clubs organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1948. The team winning the league is awar ...

*1995 - Polish Champion *1997 - Polish Champion *1998 - Polish Champion *1999 - 4th place *

- Polish Champion *

- Bronze medal *