Height 177 cm (5 ft 10 in) Role Rider Weight 77 kg (170 lb) 2012– Konya-Torku-Sekerspor | Current team Torku-Sekerspor Name Ahmet Orken Discipline Road | |
Born March 12, 1993 (age 31) Cumra, Konya Province, Turkey ( 1993-03-12 ) | ||
2013 tour of turkey stage 7 ahmet orken torku seker
Ahmet Örken (born March 12, 1993) is a Turkish professional cyclist riding for UCI Continental team Torku Åžekerspor in Konya.
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- 2013 tour of turkey stage 7 ahmet orken torku seker
- Tour of turkey stage 2 ahmet orken torku seker
- Career
- References
Tour of turkey stage 2 ahmet orken torku seker
Career
Born in Çumra, Konya Province, 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.
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 20 kilometres (12 miles). 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.