Ahmet Örken

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Ahmet Örken
Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics - Ahmet Orken.jpg
Personal information
Full nameAhmet Örken
Born (1993-03-12) 12 March 1993 (age 31)
Çumra, Konya Province, Turkey
Height177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight77 kg (170 lb)
Team information
Current team Spor Toto Cycling Team
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Amateur team
2018Salcano 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
National Road Race Championships (2019)
National Time Trial Championships (2014–2019, 2021–2022)

Ahmet Örken (born 12 March 1993) is a Turkish professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Spor Toto Cycling Team. [5]

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Early life

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]

Career

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]

Major results

Source: [15]

2009
Balkan Novice Road Championships
1st Road race
1st Time trial
National Novice Road Championships
1st Maillot Turkey.png Road race
1st Maillot Turkey.png Time trial
2010
National Junior Road Championships
1st Maillot Turkey.png Road race
1st Maillot Turkey.png Time trial
1st Prix des Vins Valloton Juniors
2011
1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Omnium, UEC European Junior Track Championships
2013
Tour de Serbie
1st Stages 4 & 6
1st Stage 6 Tour du Maroc
6th Tour of Nanjing
2014
1st Maillot Turkey.png Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Stage 9 Tour of Qinghai Lake
9th Overall Tour of Taihu Lake
2015
1st Maillot Turkey.png Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Overall International Tour of Torku Mevlana
1st Sprints classification
1st Prologue, Stages 2 & 3
1st Overall Tour of Aegean
1st Prologue & Stage 1
1st Stage 2 Tour du Maroc
1st Stage 3 Tour of Black Sea
3rd Overall Tour of Ankara
1st Mountains classification
7th Overall Tour of Taihu Lake
2016
National Road Championships
1st Maillot Turkey.png Time trial
2nd Road race
34th Summer Olympic time trial
2017
National Road Championships
1st Maillot Turkey.png Time trial
3rd Road race
1st Overall North-Cyprus Presidential Cycling Tour
1st Stages 1, 3 & 4
Les Challenges de la Marche Verte
1st GP Al Massira
3rd GP Oued Eddahab
5th GP Sakia El Hamra
Tour of Qinghai Lake
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Stages 4 [16] & 10 [17]
1st Stage 3 Tour de Serbie
2nd International Rhodes Grand Prix
Challenge du Prince
4th Trophée de l'Anniversaire
4th Trophée de la Maison Royale
2018
1st Maillot Turkey.png Time trial, National Road Championships
Tour of Mevlana
1st Prologue & Stage 4
4th Overall Tour of Fatih Sultan Mehmet
5th Time trial, Mediterranean Games
7th Grand Prix Minsk
9th Overall Tour of Cappadocia
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification
1st Stage 1
9th Grand Prix Alanya
2019
National Road Championships
1st Maillot Turkey.png Road race
1st Maillot Turkey.png Time trial
Tour of Mesopotamia
1st Points classification
1st Stage 4
2nd Overall Tour of Mevlana
1st Stage 3
5th Overall Tour of Black Sea
5th Grand Prix Alanya
1st Grand Prix Velo Erciyes
1st Stage 2
8th Grand Prix Gazipaşa
8th Minsk Cup
2020
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
7th Overall Tour of Mevlana
2021
National Road Championships
1st Maillot Turkey.png Time trial
3rd Road race
2022
1st Maillot Turkey.png Time trial, National Road Championships
5th Time trial, Islamic Solidarity Games
8th Time trial, Mediterranean Games
2023
National Road Championships
1st Maillot Turkey.png Time trial
2nd Road race
1st Expo Kriteryum
2nd Overall Kırıkkale Road Race
1st Stage 2
3rd Grand Prix Aspendos
4th Overall Tour of Yiğido
4th Grand Prix Kaisareia
8th Syedra Ancient City
9th Overall 100th Anniversary Tour of The Republic
1st Stage 1
2024
National Road Championships
1st Maillot Turkey.png Time trial
4th Road race
1st Stage 7 Tour of Qinghai Lake

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