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| Born | 28 April 1967 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Curling club | M-Curling / Panthera Team / PT-curling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Member Association |  Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Wheelchair Championship appearances | 4 (2013, 2015, 2016) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Paralympic appearances | 1 (2014) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tuomo Aarnikka (born 28 April 1967 in Lahti) is a Finnish wheelchair curler. [2] [3]
He participated in the 2014 Winter Paralympics where Finnish team finished on tenth place.
| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events |
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| 2007–08 | Tuomo Aarnikka | Jari Manni | Harri Haapala | Riitta Särösalo | Seppo Pihnala | WWhCQ 2007 (8th) | |
| Jari Manni | Tuomo Aarnikka | Risto Kuronen | Seppo Pihnala | FWhCC 2008  | |||
| 2008–09 | Vesa Hellman | Tuomo Aarnikka | Jari Manni | Riitta Särösalo | Seppo Pihnala | Lauri Ikävalko | WWhCQ 2008 (7th) |
| Tuomo Aarnikka | Jari Manni | Risto Kuronen | Seppo Pihnala | FWhCC 2009 | |||
| 2009–10 | Tuomo Aarnikka | Risto Kuronen | Reijo Laakso | Jari Manni | Seppo Pihnala | FWhCC 2010  | |
| 2010–11 | Vesa Hellman | Tuomo Aarnikka | Markku Karjalainen | Riitta Särösalo | Sari Karjalainen | Lauri Ikävalko | WWhCQ 2010 (8th) |
| Tuomo Aarnikka | Osku Kuutamo | Jussi Juntunen | Jorma Nieminen | FWhCC 2011 | |||
| 2011–12 | Markku Karjalainen (4th) | Vesa Hellman (skip) | Sari Karjalainen | Tuomo Aarnikka | Riitta Särösalo | Lauri Ikävalko | WWhCQ 2011 |
| Tuomo Aarnikka | Seppo Pihnala | Jussi Juntunen | FWhCC 2012  | ||||
| 2012–13 | Markku Karjalainen (4th) | Vesa Hellman (skip) | Sari Karjalainen | Tuomo Aarnikka | Lauri Ikävalko | WWhCQ 2012 | |
| Markku Karjalainen (4th) | Vesa Hellman (skip) | Sari Karjalainen | Tuomo Aarnikka | Mina Mojtahedi | Osku Kuutamo | WWhCC 2013 (8th) | |
| Vesa Hellman | Seppo Pihnala | Mina Mojtahedi | Tuomo Aarnikka | FWhCC 2013 | |||
| 2013–14 | Markku Karjalainen | Sari Karjalainen | Vesa Hellman | Tuomo Aarnikka | Mina Mojtahedi | Osku Kuutamo | WPG 2014 (10th) |
| 2014–15 | Markku Karjalainen | Sari Karjalainen | Mina Mojtahedi | Tuomo Aarnikka | Vesa Leppänen | Anne Malmi | WWhCC 2015 |
| 2015–16 | Markku Karjalainen | Sari Karjalainen | Yrjö Jääskeläinen | Tuomo Aarnikka | Riitta Särösalo | Lauri Ikävalko | WWhCC 2016 (10th) |
Wheelchair curling is an adaptation of curling for athletes with a disability affecting their lower limbs or gait. Wheelchair curling is governed by the World Curling Federation, and is one of the sports in the Winter Paralympic Games.
Michael McCreadie is a Paralympian with successes in lawn bowls and wheelchair curling. He made his debut at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg as a swimmer. He won two bronze medals in lawn bowls at the 1976 Summer Paralympics. He also competed in swimming and wheelchair basketball at the same Games and captained the British wheelchair basketball team at the 1980 Summer Paralympics. After that he coached the British wheelchair basketball team at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Paralympics.
Ina Forrest is a wheelchair curler selected to be second for Canada's team at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Paralympics, winning a gold medal on both occasions. She has also won a gold medal 3 times in the World Wheelchair Curling Championships, in 2009, 2011, and 2013. She was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in February 2016. She is a member of the Vernon Curling Club in Vernon, British Columbia.
The World Wheelchair Curling Championship is an annual world championship held to determine the world's best team in wheelchair curling. It is held every non-Paralympic year.
The 2011 World Wheelchair Curling Championship was held in Prague, Czech Republic from February 22 - March 1, 2011. Ten mixed gender teams competed for four playoff spots. In the final, Canada's Jim Armstrong defeated Scotland's Aileen Neilson in the final in 7 ends. Teams also gained qualification points from this event for the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi.
Aileen Neilson is a Scottish wheelchair curler. She is the first woman to skip a wheelchair curling team in either the Paralympic Games (2010) or World Championships (2011).
Angie Malone is a British Paralympian and World Champion Wheelchair curler.
The wheelchair curling competition of the 2014 Winter Paralympics was held from 8 to 15 March 2014 at the Ice Cube Curling Center in Sochi, Russia. Ten mixed teams competed.
Penny Ricker Greely is a three time Paralympian for Team USA. She competes as a wheelchair curler and competed as a sitting volleyball player. She played in the bronze medal-winning United States team in Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Paralympics and competed in Wheelchair curling at the 2014 Winter Paralympics and the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
Wang Haitao is a Chinese wheelchair curler. He participated at the 2014, 2018 Winter Paralympics and 2022 Winter Paralympics, winning two gold medals in 2018 and 2022.
Markku Karjalainen is a Finnish wheelchair curler.
Sari Karjalainen is a Finnish wheelchair curler.
Vesa Hellman is a Finnish wheelchair curler.
Aarnikka is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Mina Mojtahedi is a Finnish wheelchair curler.
Yrjö Tapani Jääskeläinen is a Finnish wheelchair curler.
Vesa Leppänen is a Finnish wheelchair curler.
Riitta Särösalo is a Finnish wheelchair curler.
Vesa Kokko is a Finnish male wheelchair curler and curling coach.
The 2016 World Wheelchair-B Curling Championship was held from November 4 to 11, 2016 at the Kisakallio Sports Institute in Lohja, Finland.
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