Ahmet Örken Explained

Ahmet Örken
Fullname:Ahmet Örken
Birth Date:1993 3, df=y
Birth Place:Çumra, Konya Province, Turkey
Height:177 cm
Weight:77 kg
Discipline:Road
Role:Rider
Amateuryears1:2018
Amateurteam1:Salcano Sakarya Büyükşehir
Proyears1:2012–2017
Proteam1:[1]
Proyears2:2019
Proyears3:2020–2021
Proteam3:[2] [3]
Proyears4:2022
Proteam4:[4]
Proyears5:2023–
Majorwins:One-day races and Classics

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 .[5]

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 20km (10miles).[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 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 Road race
  • 1st Time trial
    2010
  • National Junior Road Championships
  • 1st Road race
  • 1st Time trial
  • 1st Prix des Vins Valloton Juniors
    2011
  • 1st 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 Time trial, National Road Championships
  • 1st Stage 9 Tour of Qinghai Lake
  • 9th Overall Tour of Taihu Lake
    2015
  • 1st 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 Time trial
  • 2nd Road race
  • 34th Summer Olympic time trial
    2017
  • National Road Championships
  • 1st 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 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 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 Mountains classification
  • 1st Stage 1
  • 9th Grand Prix Alanya
    2019
  • National Road Championships
  • 1st Road race
  • 1st 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 Time trial
  • 3rd Road race
    2022
  • 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
  • 5th Time trial, Islamic Solidarity Games
  • 8th Time trial, Mediterranean Games
    2023
  • National Road Championships
  • 1st 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 Time trial
  • 4th Road race
  • 1st Stage 7 Tour of Qinghai Lake

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Ahmet Örken . Komya Torku Spor Kulübü . Turkish . 14 June 2013.
    2. Web site: Team Sapura Cycling . UCI.org . . 14 May 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200514221816/https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15062/1002168/257 . 14 May 2020.
    3. Web site: Team Sapura Cycling . UCI.org . . 27 February 2021 . https://archive.today/20210227232607/https://www.uci.ch/road/teams/TeamDetail/15352/1002168/276 . 27 February 2021.
    4. News: Jackie . Tyson . Wildlife Generation launches 2022 campaign at Tour of Antalya . . . 8 February 2022 . 16 February 2022 . Making introductory appearances for the team are Scott McGill and Ahmet Örken, the reigning Turkish time trial national champion..
    5. Web site: Spor Toto Cycling Team . UCI.org . . 6 February 2023.
    6. Web site: Kırım Tatar Milli bisikletçi Ahmet Örken: Üç büyük turda yarışmayı çok istiyorum . 25 April 2020.
    7. News: Örken Türkiye'ye Gurur Yaşattı . Haberler . 7 April 2013 . Turkish . 14 June 2013.
    8. News: Ahmet Örken, bisiklette Avrupa şampiyonu ilk Türk sporcu oldu . Zaman Spor . 1 August 2011 . Turkish . 14 June 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140714205410/http://www.zaman.com.tr/spor_ahmet-orken-bisiklette-avrupa-sampiyonu-ilk-turk-sporcu-oldu_1164151.html . 14 July 2014.
    9. News: Örken Türkiye'ye gurur yaşattı . Hürriyet Spor . 7 April 2013 . Turkish . 14 June 2013.
    10. Web site: Tour du Maroc 2013 - 6th Stage . Cycling Archives . 14 June 2013.
    11. Web site: Tour du Maroc 2013 - 8th Stage . Cycling Archives . 14 June 2013.
    12. Web site: 2013 53rd Tour de Serbie (2.2) Stage 4 - Kladovo-Pozarvac . Pro Cycling Stats . 14 June 2013.
    13. Web site: 2013 53rd Tour de Serbie (2.2) Stage 6 - S.Mitrovica- Belgrade . Pro Cycling Stats . 16 June 2013.
    14. Web site: Orken makes 'heartbreaking' decision to leave Israel Cycling Academy . 21 December 2017.
    15. Web site: Ahmet Örken . FirstCycling.com . FirstCycling AS . 30 August 2022.
    16. Web site: Tour of Qinghai Lake: Ahmet Orken wins stage 4 . 19 July 2017 . . 14 October 2017.
    17. Web site: Tour of Qinghai Lake: Ahmet Orken wins stage 10 . 26 July 2017 . . 14 October 2017.