Ahmet Örken

Ahmet Örken
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Date of birth	March 12, 1993
nation	Turkey
discipline	Road / train
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Current team	Team Sapura Cycling
	Last updated: February 18, 2020

Ahmet Örken (born March 12, 1993 in Çumra ) is a Turkish cyclist who mainly competes in road races . Alongside Onur Balkan, he is one of the dominant cyclists in his country in the 2010s.

Athletic career

In 2009, Ahmet Örken became Turkish youth champion in individual time trials and road races, and in 2010 he repeated this double success in the junior class. In 2011 he made a detour to the track and became Junior European Champion in the Omnium ; at the world championships in the same year he finished fifth.

In 2012 Örken got a contract with Konya Torku Şekerspor and stayed with this team until 2017. Up to and including 2018 he was five times in a row Turkish champion in the individual time trial, in 2016 also runner-up in the road race. He also started at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 : He did not finish the road race and finished 34th in the individual time trial.

For the 2018 season, Örken switched to the Israel Cycling Academy . However, at Örken's request, the contract was terminated before his first race, as he and his family came under pressure due to political tensions.

Örken won a total of 20 stages of tours by 2018, such as the Morocco and Serbia tours and the Tour of Qinghai Lake . In 2015 he won the overall rankings of the Tour of Mevlana and the Tour of Aegean . In 2019 he became Turkish road champion for the first time, after having become national time trial champion six times by then.