Tero Kalevi Aarnio (born 17 April 1984) is a Finnish

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 anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that use only ...

rider.

Career

Aarnio was a member of Finland team at

2007 Speedway World Cup The 2007 Speedway World Cup (SWC) was the 7th FIM Speedway World Cup season. The Final took place on July 21, 2007 in the Alfred Smoczyk Stadium in Leszno, Poland. The tournament was won by host team Poland (55 pts) and they beat defending champi ...

. This led to his signing for

Berwick Bandits The Berwick Bandits are a British speedway club, based in Berwick-upon-Tweed. They currently compete in the SGB Championship, racing at Shielfield Park, with home matches usually taking place on Saturday evenings. They also run a second team in ...

for the 2008 and 2009 seasons. He then joined

Scunthorpe Scorpions The Scunthorpe Scorpions are a speedway team in the British SGB Championship. They have raced at various times since 1972, at three different venues. History 1972–1978 The original Scunthorpe side were known as Scunthorpe Saints from 1972 ...

in 2010 and 2011 and

Workington Comets The Workington Comets are a British speedway club, based in Workington, Cumbria, racing out of the Northside Training Track. The team previously operated from 1970 to 2018 and were based at Derwent Park Stadium which they shared with Workington ...

in 2012 and 2013 He then spent the 2014 and 2015 seasons with Glasgow and Newcastle respectively, the 2016 season with Scunthorpe and returned to Newcastle in 2018. In 2019 he rode for Birmingham. After medalling six times at the

Finnish Individual Speedway Championship The Finnish Individual Speedway Championship is a Motorcycle speedway championship held each year to determine the Finnish national champion. It was first staged in 1955. Winners See also Finland national speedway team References {{Interna ...

he finally won the national title, when winning the 2020 Finnish Individual Speedway Championship to become champion of Finland. In 2021 and 2022, he rode for Scunthorpe again, in the

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and the

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. In 2022, he also rode for

Tarnów Tarnów () is a city in southeastern Poland with 105,922 inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of 269,000 inhabitants. The city is situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999. From 1975 to 1998, it was the capital of the Tarnów ...

in the

Polish Speedway Second League The Polish Speedway Second League or Liga.2 żużlowa is the third division of motorcycle speedway in Poland. It is below the Ekstraliga and the Polish Speedway First League The Polish Speedway First League or Liga.1 żużlowa is the second ...

Career details

World Championships

* Team World Championship (

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and

Speedway World Cup The Speedway World Cup is an annual motorcycle speedway, 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 Speedway World Team Cup, World Team Cu ...

) **

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 6 ...

– 3rd place in Qualifying round 1 **

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

– 8th place **

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

– 2nd place in Qualifying round 2 * Team U-21 World Championship **

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

– 4th place in Qualifying Round 3

European Championships

* Individual European Championship **

– 17th place in Semi-Final C **

– 16th place in Semi-Final B * Individual U-19 European Championship **

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 East Timor independence, indepe ...

– 10th place in Semi-Final A **

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

– 12th place in Semi-Final A * European Pairs Championship **

–

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– 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)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aarnio, Tero 1984 births Living people Finnish speedway riders Berwick Bandits riders Birmingham Brummies riders Glasgow Tigers riders Newcastle Diamonds riders Scunthorpe Scorpions riders Workington Comets riders