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Ahmet Örken (born 12 March 1993) is a Turkish professional
Road race
::1st Road race
::1st 
Omnium, UEC European Junior Track Championships
;2013
: Road race
::1st
cyclist
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, who currently rides for UCI Continental team .
Career
Born inÇumra
Çumra is a town and district of Konya Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 104,576 of which 42,308 live in the town of Çumra.
Çumra town
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, Konya Province
Konya Province ( tr, ), in southwest Central Anatolia, is the largest province of Turkey. The provincial capital is the city of Konya. Its traffic code is 42.
The Kızılören solar power plant in Konya will be able to produce 22.5 mega ...
, 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
Çatalhöyük (; also ''Çatal Höyük'' and ''Çatal Hüyük''; from Turkish ''çatal'' "fork" + ''höyük'' "tumulus") is a tell of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from app ...
Çumra Municipality Sports Club with the help of his brother.
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
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.
In 2013, Ahmet Örken won the sixth stage of the Tour du Maroc
Tour du Maroc is the most important road bicycle race in the African state of Morocco. The editions 1957–1993 were reserved to amateurs. Since 2006, it is organized as a 2.2
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world's governing body ...
, between Meknes
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and Khenifra, despite injuries he suffered during a fall in a mass crash after . He finished third in stage eight, between Beni Mellal
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and Marrakesh
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. Örken won the fourth ( Kladovo to Požarevac) and sixth (Sremska Mitrovica
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to Belgrade
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) stages of the Tour de Serbie
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The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing
Road bicycle racing is the cycle spor ...
in 2013.
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.
Major results
Source: ;2009 : Balkan Novice Road Championships ::1st Road race ::1st Time trial : National Novice Road Championships ::1st Road race
::1st Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
;2010
: National Junior Road Championships
::1st Road race
::1st Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
: 1st Prix des Vins Valloton Juniors
;2011
: 1st Omnium, UEC European Junior Track Championships
;2013
: Tour de Serbie
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The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing
Road bicycle racing is the cycle spor ...
::1st Stages 4 & 6
: 1st Stage 6 Tour du Maroc
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The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world's governing body ...
: 6th Tour of Nanjing
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;2014
: 1st Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
, National Road Championships
: 1st Stage 9 Tour of Qinghai Lake
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: 9th Overall Tour of Taihu Lake
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;2015
: 1st Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
, National Road Championships
: 1st Overall International Tour of Torku Mevlana
::1st Sprints classification
::1st Prologue, Stages 2 & 3
: 1st Overall Tour of Aegean
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The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing
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::1st Prologue & Stage 1
: 1st Stage 2 Tour du Maroc
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The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world's governing body ...
: 1st Stage 3 Tour of Black Sea
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The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Un ...
: 3rd Overall Tour of Ankara
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::1st Mountains classification
: 7th Overall Tour of Taihu Lake
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;2016
: National Road Championships
::1st Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
::2nd Road race
;2017
: National Road Championships
::1st Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
::3rd Road race
: 1st Overall North-Cyprus Presidential Cycling Tour
::1st Stages 1, 3 & 4
: Les Challenges de la Marche Verte
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::1st GP Al Massira
::3rd GP Oued Eddahab
::5th GP Sakia El Hamra
: Tour of Qinghai Lake
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::1st Points classification
::1st Stages 4 & 10
: 1st Stage 3 Tour de Serbie
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The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing
Road bicycle racing is the cycle spor ...
: 2nd International Rhodes Grand Prix
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: Challenge du Prince
The Challenge du Prince is a series of one-day races held annually since 2010 in Morocco
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::4th Trophée de l'Anniversaire
::4th Trophée de la Maison Royale
;2018
: 1st Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
, National Road Championships
: Tour of Mevlana
The International Tour of Torku Mevlana is a cycling race held in Turkey. The event was first held in 1990, and was on the UCI Europe Tour in 2007 and again starting in 2015 as a category 2.2.
Winners
Juniors
References
Cycle races in T ...
::1st Prologue & Stage 4
: 4th Overall Tour of Fatih Sultan Mehmet
: 5th Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
, Mediterranean Games
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: 7th Grand Prix Minsk
: 9th Overall Tour of Cappadocia
::1st Mountains classification
::1st Stage 1
: 9th Grand Prix Alanya
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The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) ...
;2019
: National Road Championships
::1st Road race
::1st Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
: Tour of Mesopotamia
::1st Points classification
::1st Stage 4
: 2nd Overall Tour of Mevlana
The International Tour of Torku Mevlana is a cycling race held in Turkey. The event was first held in 1990, and was on the UCI Europe Tour in 2007 and again starting in 2015 as a category 2.2.
Winners
Juniors
References
Cycle races in T ...
::1st Stage 3
: 5th Overall Tour of Black Sea
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The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Un ...
: 5th Grand Prix Alanya
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The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) ...
: 6th Grand Prix Velo Erciyes
: 8th Grand Prix Gazipaşa
: 8th Minsk Cup
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;2020
: 3rd Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
, National Road Championships
: 7th Overall Tour of Mevlana
The International Tour of Torku Mevlana is a cycling race held in Turkey. The event was first held in 1990, and was on the UCI Europe Tour in 2007 and again starting in 2015 as a category 2.2.
Winners
Juniors
References
Cycle races in T ...
;2021
: National Road Championships
::1st Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
::3rd Road race
;2022
: 1st Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
, National Road Championships
: 5th Time trial, Islamic Solidarity Games
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: 8th Time trial, Mediterranean Games
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References
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Orken, Ahmet 1993 births Living people Turkish male cyclists People from Çumra Olympic cyclists of Turkey Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games European Games competitors for Turkey Cyclists at the 2015 European Games Mediterranean Games competitors for Turkey 20th-century Turkish people 21st-century Turkish people