Aaron Summers (speedway rider)

Aaron Summers
Born (1988-03-01) 1 March 1988
Adelaide, South Australia
Nationality Australian
Current club information
British league Leicester Lions/
Glasgow Tigers
Career history
2007 Buxton Hitmen
2007–2009 Edinburgh Monarchs
2008 (CL), 2011–2014 (PL) Redcar Bears
2010 Birmingham Brummies
2010, 2012–2013 Coventry Bees
2015 Swindon Robins
2015– Glasgow Tigers
2016 Leicester Lions
Individual honours
1994 Australian Under-16 Solo Champion
Team honours
2008 Premier Trophy
2008 Premier League
2010 Elite League
2010 Premier League Fours

Aaron Richard Summers (born 1 March 1988) is an Australian speedway rider.

Career

Born in Adelaide, Summers first had success as a junior, winning the Australian Under-16 Solo Championship in 2004.[1]

He began his British speedway career in 2007, riding for Buxton Hitmen in the Conference League and Edinburgh Monarchs in the Premier League.[1] In his second season he won the Premier League and the Premier Trophy with the Monarchs, also riding for Redcar Bears' Conference League team.[1][2]

In 2009 he stayed with the Monarchs, and the following year rode for Birmingham Brummies in the Premier League and in the title-winning Coventry Bees Elite League team.[3][4] In 2011 he began a four-year stay with Redcar Bears in the Premier League and in 2012 and 2013 returned to the Coventry Bees Elite League team. In 2015 he left the Bears and signed for Glasgow Tigers where he captained the team, doubling up in the Elite League with Swindon Robins and ending the season with a 6.82 Elite League CMA. He started the 2016 season with Tigers but with no Elite League place, but was signed by Leicester Lions in April to replace Grzegorz Walasek.[5]

Honours

Individual

Team

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Rider Index", speedwaygb.co. Retrieved 10 April 2016
  2. ↑ "Could Aaron Summers be Monarchs' secret weapon?", Sunday Express, 16 April 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2016
  3. ↑ "Birmingham Brummies sign Aaron Summers on loan", BBC, 17 December 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2016
  4. ↑ "Birmingham Brummies: Speedway star Aaron Summers to visit fracture clinic", Birmingham Mail, 28 June 2010. Retrieved 10 April 2016
  5. ↑ Lanning, Phil (2015) "Glasgow Tigers sign Aaron Summers and he admits: "I've re-joined biggest club in Scotland"", Daily Record, 4 November 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2016
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