Tero Aarnio

Tero Aarnio

Born	(1984-04-17) 17 April 1984 (age 40) Kuusankoski, Finland
Nationality	Finnish
Career history
Sweden
2002, 2018 -2020	Rospiggarna
2021	Dackarna
2022–2023	Indianerna
2024	Solkatterna
Great Britain
2008–2009	Berwick
2010–2013, 2017 2020-2021	Scunthorpe
2013	Workington
2014	Glasgow
2015–2016, 2018	Newcastle
2019	Birmingham
Poland
2019	Kraków
2021	Poznań
2022-2023	Tarnów
Denmark
2008	Grinsted
2018	Fjelsted
Individual honours
2020	Finnish national champion
2004, 2005	Junior Finnish Champion

Tero Kalevi Aarnio (born 17 April 1984)^[1] is a motorcycle speedway rider from Finland.^[2][3][4][5]

Career

Aarnio was a member of Finland team at 2007 Speedway World Cup. This led to his signing for Berwick Bandits for the 2008 and 2009 seasons. He then joined Scunthorpe Scorpions in 2010 and 2011, and Workington Comets in 2012 and 2013.^[2] For the 2014 and 2015 seasons, he was with Glasgow and Newcastle respectively. Moreover, in the 2016 season with Scunthorpe and returned to Newcastle in 2018.^[6] In 2019, he rode for Birmingham.

After being awarded six times at the Finnish Individual Speedway Championship, he finally won the national title in the 2020 Finnish Individual Speedway Championship, as the champion of Finland.^[7]

In 2021 and 2022, he rode for Scunthorpe again, in the SGB Championship 2021 and the SGB Championship 2022.^[8] He also rode for Tarnów in the 2022 Polish Speedway Second League.^[9] In 2023, he was part of the Finland team that competed at the 2023 Speedway World Cup in Poland.^[10]

Career details

World Championships

• Team World Championship (Speedway World Team Cup and Speedway World Cup)
  • 2004 – 3rd place in Qualifying round 1
  • 2007 – 8th place
  • 2008 – 2nd place in Qualifying round 2
• Team U-21 World Championship
  • 2005 – 4th place in Qualifying Round 3

European Championships

• Individual European Championship
  • 2005 – 17th place in Semi-Final C
  • 2007 – 16th place in Semi-Final B
• Individual U-19 European Championship
  • 2002 – 10th place in Semi-Final A
  • 2003 – 12th place in Semi-Final A
• European Pairs Championship
  • 2007 – Terenzano – 4th place (1 pt)

Domestic competitions

• Individual Finnish Championship
  • 2001 – 12th place (4+0 pts)
  • 2002 – 7th place (9 pts)
  • 2003 – 10th place (6 pts)
  • 2004 – 3rd place (15 pts)
  • 2005 – 3rd place (44 pts)
  • 2006 – 9th place (7 pts)
  • 2008 – 5th place (9+1 pts)
• Individual Junior Finnish Championship
  • 2001 – 9th place (7 pts)
  • 2002 – Runner-up (17 pts)
  • 2003 – Runner-up (17 pts)
  • 2004 – Finnish Champion (25 pts)
  • 2005 – Finnish Champion (25 pts)

See also

• Finland national speedway team

References

1. www.lubusports.pl^{[dead link‍]}. Retrieved 10 March 2009.
2. "Tero Aarnio". WWOS backup. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
3. "2008 Rider index" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
4. "Tero Kalevi Aarnio Finlandia". Polish Speedway Database. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
5. "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
6. "Workington Comets re-sign popular rider Tero Aarnio". Times and Star. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
7. "Individual Finnish Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
8. "British Speedway rider profile". British Speedway. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
9. "Speedway from Around the Globe - Poland PGE Ekstraliga". Speedway Star. 10 September 2022. p. 42.
10. "WELCOME TO SWC". FIM. Retrieved 26 July 2023.