Onur Balkans
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Date of birth | March 10, 1996 |
nation | Turkey |
discipline | Street |
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Current team | Salcano Sakarya BB Team |
Last updated: March 12, 2020 |
Onur Balkan (born March 10, 1996 in İzmit ) is a Turkish road cyclist . Along with Ahmet Örken, he is one of the dominant cyclists in his country in the 2010s.
Athletic career
Between 2012 and 2014 Onur Balkan won five national road cycling titles in the youth and junior age groups. In 2015 he decided the stages of several tours for himself. The following year he was the first Turkish road race champion and successfully defended this title in the two following years. In 2016 he started at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in the road race, which he could not finish. In 2018 he won the overall ranking of the Tour of Mediterranean .
successes
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- a stage and points scoring Tour of Çanakkale
- one stage Tour of Mersin
- one stage Tour of Black Sea
- two stages and points classification Tour of Ankara
- one stage Tour of Aegean
- 2016
- a stage tour of Morocco
- Turkish champion - road race
- 2017
- 2018
- Overall ranking and two stages of the Tour of Mediterrennean
- Tour of Mevlana
- one stage Tour of Mesopotamia
- one stage tour of Qinghai Lake
- one stage Tour of Cappadocia
- a stage Turul Romaniei
- Turkish champion - road race
- 2019
- Grand Prix Justiniano Hotels
- one stage Tour of Mesopotamia
- Overall and points evaluation, two stages Yavuz Sultan Selim Tour of Black Sea
- Tour de Ribas
- Grand Prix Velo Erciyes
- one stage Tour of Central Anatolia
- Overall ranking and one stage Tour of Kayseri
- Fatih Sultan Mehmet Edirne Race
Teams
- 2018 Torku Şekerspor
- 2019 Salcano Sakarya BB Team
- 2020 Salcano Sakarya BB Team
Web links
- Onur Balkan in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Onur Balkan in the ProCyclingStats.com database
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SURNAME | Balkans, Onur |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1996 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | İzmit |