Tero Aarnio

Tero Kalevi Aarnio (born 17 April 1984) is a motorcycle speedway rider from Finland.

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. 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.

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

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)