![]() Örken during the road race at the 2020 Summer Olympics | |
Personal information | |
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Full name | Ahmet Örken |
Born | Çumra, Konya Province, Turkey | 12 March 1993
Height | 177 cm (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Spor Toto Cycling Team |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Amateur team | |
2018 | Salcano Sakarya Büyükşehir |
Professional teams | |
2012–2017 | Konya–Torku Şekerspor [1] |
2019 | Salcano–Sakarya BB Team |
2020–2021 | Team Sapura Cycling [2] [3] |
2022 | Wildlife Generation Pro Cycling [4] |
2023– | Spor Toto Cycling Team |
Major wins | |
One-day races and Classics
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Ahmet Örken (born 12 March 1993) is a Turkish professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Spor Toto Cycling Team. [5]
Born in Çumra Konya Province as the second child of a family of Tatar descent (a Turkic ethnic subgroup). [6] Örken began with cycling sport at the age of fourteen in 2007 at Çumra, Konya Province, where he moved from his village with his mother to enable his older brother's education there. The next year, he entered the cycling team at Çatalhöyük Çumra Municipality Sports Club with the help of his brother. [7]
He became the first ever European cycling champion from Turkey with his win at the 2011 European Track Championships in the junior omnium held in Portugal. [7] [8]
In 2013, Ahmet Örken won the sixth stage of the Tour du Maroc, between Meknes and Khenifra, despite injuries he suffered during a fall in a mass crash after 20 kilometres (12 miles). [7] [9] He finished third in stage eight, between Beni Mellal and Marrakesh. [10] [11] Örken won the fourth (Kladovo to Požarevac) and sixth (Sremska Mitrovica to Belgrade) stages of the Tour de Serbie in 2013. [12] [13]
Örken had signed to join ProContinental team Israel Cycling Academy from 2018, but at a time of heightened tensions in the Middle East, he pulled out of the agreement after he and his family were put under pressure. [14]
Source: [15]
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Making introductory appearances for the team are Scott McGill and Ahmet Örken, the reigning Turkish time trial national champion.