Piotr Świderski (born 11 May 1983 in

Rawicz Rawicz (; ) is a town in west-central Poland with 21,398 inhabitants as of 2004. It is situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship (since 1999); previously it was in Leszno Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is the capital of Rawicz County. History The ...

, Poland) is a former

motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...

rider from Poland.

Career history

In his native Poland, Świderski rode for 15 seasons from 2002 until 2016. During the

2011 Polish speedway season The 2011 Polish Speedway season was the 2011 season of motorcycle speedway in Poland. Individual Polish Individual Speedway Championship The 2011 Individual Speedway Polish Championship final was held on 3 September at Leszno. Jarosław Hampel ...

, Świderski broke his leg while riding for

Wrocław Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...

. Świderski rode for the

Peterborough Panthers The Peterborough Panthers were a British motorcycle speedway team based in Peterborough, England from 1970 to 2023. They were three times List of United Kingdom speedway league champions, champions of the United Kingdom, winning the highest lev ...

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 The Lakeside Hammers (formerly the Arena-Essex Hammers) were a speedway team who raced in the British league system from 1984 to 2018, most recently racing in the SGB Championship in 2018. The team were nicknamed the Hammers after the West Ham H ...

in the British Elite League. In 2015, he signed for

Leicester Lions Leicester Lions are a speedway team which originally operated from 1968 until 1983Bamford, R & Jarvis J.(2001). ''Homes of British Speedway''. and again from 2011. The team race at the Beaumont Park Stadium (or Hydroscand Arena for sponsorsh ...

to replace the retired Lewis Bridger, which turned out to be his final season in British speedway.Swiderski is a Lion
, speedwaygb.co, 19 June 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2015

References

1983 births Living people Polish speedway riders Ipswich Witches riders Peterborough Panthers riders Polish expatriate speedway riders in England People from Rawicz Motorcycle racers from Greater Poland Voivodeship {{poland-speedway-bio-stub