Ahmet Örken

Ahmet Örken (born 12 March 1993) is a Turkish professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team .

Early life Born in Çumra Konya Province as the second child of a family of Tatar descent (a Turkic ethnic subgroup). 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.

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.

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 . He finished third in stage eight, between Beni Mellal and Marrakesh. Örken won the fourth (Kladovo to Požarevac) and sixth (Sremska Mitrovica to Belgrade) stages of the Tour de Serbie 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

2010 National Junior Road Championships

1st Prix des Vins Valloton Juniors 2011

2013 Tour de Serbie 1st Stages 4 & 6 1st Stage 6 Tour du Maroc 6th Tour of Nanjing 2014

1st Stage 9 Tour of Qinghai Lake 9th Overall Tour of Taihu Lake 2015

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

2nd Road race 34th Summer Olympic time trial 2017 National Road Championships

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 & 10 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

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

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

3rd Road race 2022

5th Time trial, Islamic Solidarity Games 8th Time trial, Mediterranean Games 2023 National Road Championships

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

4th Road race 1st Stage 7 Tour of Qinghai Lake