Rene Lehtinen (born 27 March 1985) 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, who 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 21 July 2007 in the Alfred Smoczyk Stadium in Leszno, Poland. The tournament was won by host team Poland (55 pts) and they beat defending cha ...

Career

Lehtinen competed in three World longtrack Grand Prix series in 2009, 2011 and 2012]. In 2007, he won the Finland Long Track championship and Nordic Long Track championship.

Results

World Championships

* Team World Championship (

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and

Speedway World Cup The Speedway World Cup is a motorcycle speedway event for national teams held 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 Cup which ...

) **

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

- 8th place (did not start as reserve) * Team U-21 World Championship ** ''

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

- 4th place in Qualifying Round 3'' ** ''

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

- 4th place in Qualifying Round 2''

World Longtrack Championship

Grand-Prix Years

* 2009 - 1 app (21st) 7pts * 2011 - 1 app (21st) 2pt * 2012 - 1 app (25th) 5pts

Team Championship

* 2007 Morizes (6th) 11/18pts (Rode with Mikko Rahko, Markus Helin) * 2008 Wertle (4th) 15/30pts (Rode with

Kaj Laukkanen Kai Pekka Laukkanen (born 8 April 1975) is a Finnish former motorcycle speedway rider. He earned 15 caps for the Finland national speedway team. Career Laukkanen won the final running of the Intercontinental Final in 2001. He rode in 2004 Spee ...

, Aki-Pekka Mustonen, Jan-Eric Korkemaki) * 2009

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(6th) 1/31pts (Rode with

Joonas Kylmakorpi Joonas is an Estonian and Finnish given name, a cognate of Jonas. Notable people with the given name include: * Joonas Alanne (born 1990), Finnish ice hockey player * Joonas Angeria (born 1989), Finnish music producer, songwriter and musician * ...

, Aki Pekka Mustonen) * 2010 Morizes (5th) 0/24pts (Rode with Joonas Kylmakorpi, Pasi Pulliainen, Aki Pekka Mustonen) * 2011

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(6th) 10/26pts (Rode with Simo Pulli, Aki Pekka Mustonen)

European Grasstrack Championship

Finals

* 2008

Siddeburen Siddeburen (; or ) is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Midden-Groningen, about 10 km southwest of Delfzijl. Siddeburen was a separate municipality until 1826, when it was merged with Slocht ...

(Third) 16pts

Semi-finals

* 2006

Gorredijk Gorredijk () is the largest town in the municipality of Opsterland, in the Dutch province of Friesland. Gorredijk had a population of 7,360 in 2019. The hamlets of Easterein and Kortezwaag are also part of the town. The latter was an independent ...

(N/S) * 2007 Hertingan (11th) 9pts * 2009

Stadskanaal Stadskanaal () is a town and municipality with a population of 32,715 in the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. It was named after the canal Stadskanaal. From 1800 until 1900 this area was ideal for its peat mining, and so ...

(8th) 10pts * 2011

Staphorst Staphorst () is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. History The villages of Staphorst and its southern neighbour Rouveen came into existence as in the 13th century monks started to bring the bogs and swamps into culture. All ...

(7th) 10pts * 2013 Noordwolde (11th) 8pts

References

1985 births Finnish speedway riders Living people {{Finland-speedway-bio-stub