Egoi Martínez de Esteban (born May 15, 1978, Etxarri-Aranatz

Etxarri-Aranatz

Etxarri-Aranatz is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. Etxarri-Aranatz was founded in 1312.-External links:*...

, Navarra) is a Spanish

Spain

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 professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Euskaltel-Euskadi

Euskaltel-Euskadi

Euskaltel-Euskadi is a professional road bicycle racing team from Spain. The team is commercially sponsored, but also works as an unofficial Basque national team and is partly funded by the Basque Government. Its riders are either from Basque Country, or at least have grown up in the cycling...

. In his first Tour de France

Tour de France

The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race held in France and nearby countries. First staged in 1903, the race covers more than and lasts three weeks. As the best known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours", the Tour de France attracts riders and teams from around the world. The...

, Martínez finished 41st overall at the 2004 Tour de France

2004 Tour de France

The 2004 Tour de France was the 91st, taking place from July 3 to July 25, 2004. It consisted of 20 stages over 3391 km.Lance Armstrong became the first to win six Tours de France. Armstrong had been favored to win, his competitors seen as being German Jan Ullrich, Spaniards Roberto Heras and...

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Major achievements

2003 - Euskaltel-Euskadi

Tour de l'Avenir

Tour de l'Avenir

Tour de l'Avenir is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961 as a race similar to the Tour de France and over much of the same course but for amateurs and for semi-professionals known as independents. Riders competed in national teams...

 - Overall winner

2005 - Euskaltel-Euskadi

4th, Grand Prix Miguel Indurain

2006 - Discovery-Channel

12th Overall, Vuelta a España

1st Stage 11,

1st King of the Mountains

King of the Mountains

The King of the Mountains is the title given to the best climber in a cycling road race; usually and officially known as the Mountains classification...

 Classification

3rd Stage 1, Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

Combative Award, Stage 4, Tour de France

2006 Tour de France

The 2006 Tour de France was the 93rd Tour de France, taking place from July 1 to July 23, 2006. It was won by Óscar Pereiro following the disqualification of apparent winner Floyd Landis....

2008 - Euskaltel-Euskadi

1st, King of the Mountains Classification, Vuelta al País Vasco

2008 Vuelta al País Vasco

The 2008 Vuelta al País Vasco, the 65th edition of the Vuelta al País Vasco stage cycling race, took place from April 7 to April 12, 2008. It was won by Spanish rider Alberto Contador of .-General classification:...

Combative Award, Stage 15, Tour de France

2008 Tour de France

The 2008 Tour de France was the 95th Tour de France. The event took place from 5–27 July 2008. Starting in the French city of Brest, the tour entered Italy on the 15th stage and returned to France during the 16th, heading for Paris, its regular final destination, which was reached in the 21st stage...

2nd, Stage 15

9th Overall, Vuelta a España

2008 Vuelta a España

The 2008 Vuelta a España was the 63rd edition of the Vuelta a España, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The event took place from 30 August to 21 September 2008 over 21 stages covering . The first stage was a team time trial in Granada. The event finished in Madrid 23 days later...

Jersey Oro Stage 9-12

Jersey Bianca Stage 2, 3 and 5

2009 - Euskaltel-Euskadi

1st, King of the Mountains Classification, Tirreno–Adriatico

1st, Metas Volantes Classification, Vuelta al País Vasco

2009 Vuelta al País Vasco

The 2009 Vuelta al País Vasco, the 66th edition of the Vuelta al País Vasco stage cycling race, started on 6 April and ended on 11 April. It was won by Alberto Contador, making this his second Vuelta al País Vasco victory in a row...

2nd, Klasika Primavera

Klasika Primavera

The Klasika Primavera is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in April in Amorebieta, Spain. Since 2005, the race is organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour....

• 44th Overall, Tour de France
  2009 Tour de France
  The 2009 Tour de France was the 96th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started on 4 July in the principality of Monaco with a individual time trial which included a section of the Circuit de Monaco...
  
  
  • 2nd Overall, King of the Mountains
    King of the Mountains
    The King of the Mountains is the title given to the best climber in a cycling road race; usually and officially known as the Mountains classification...
    
    

2010 - Euskaltel-Euskadi

1st, King of the Mountains Classification, Criterium du Dauphiné

2010 Critérium du Dauphiné

The 2010 Critérium du Dauphiné was the 62nd edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné stage race, and the first since it was renamed. It took place from 6–13 June, and was part of both the 2010 UCI ProTour and World Calendar...

External links

• Palmares on CyclingBase (French)