Egoi Martínez

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Egoi Martínez Road cycling
Egoi Martínez at the Vuelta a España 2008
Egoi Martínez at the Vuelta a España 2008
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Full name Egoi Martínez de Esteban
Date of birth May 15, 1978
nation SpainSpain Spain
discipline Street
Driver type Mountain specialist
Societies)
1999-2001 Caja Rural
Team (s)
2002–2005
2006–2007

2008–2013 		Euskaltel-Euskadi
Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
Euskaltel-Euskadi
Most important successes

a stage and mountain classification Vuelta a España 2006

Last updated: January 10, 2014

Egoi Martínez de Esteban (born May 15, 1978 in Etxarri / Basque Country ) is a former Spanish cyclist .

Career

After Martinez won the Vuelta Ciclista a León in 2001 and finished second in the Vuelta a Navarra , he was signed by the Basque UCI ProTeam Euskaltel-Euskadi in 2002 , where he drove until the 2005 season. In your first year there, he won the overall ranking of the Tour de l'Avenir .

In the following years Martinez participated nine times in the Tour de France , eight times in the Vuelta a España and once in the Giro d'Italia . He achieved his best results on the Tour of Spain: in 2006 he won the mountainous eleventh stage as a member of the Discovery Channel team after attacking from a leading group around his former team-mate Iñigo Landaluze . He also won the mountain classification and was twelfth overall. In 2009 , on the ninth stage, he was the first driver in the history of the Euskaltel-Euskadi team , which he has been driving again since this season, to take over the gold jersey of the overall leader by being part of a top group of twelve with a lead of 6:42 Minutes drove out. He was able to defend the overall lead for four days and finished ninth in the overall standings.

In addition, Martinez won the mountain ratings of the Tour of the Basque Country in 2008 , the Tirreno-Adriatico in 2009 and the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2010 . At the Tour de France 2008 he only had to admit defeat to Franco Pellizotti in the fight for the dotted jersey .

After the end of the 2013 season, he ended his career as a professional cyclist.

successes

2001
2003
2006
2008
2009
2010

Placements in the Grand Tours

Grand Tour 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - - - - 22nd
Yellow jersey Tour de France 41 48 42 61 50 44 40 34 17th -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - 45 12 DNF 9 52 DNF 55 - 30th
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stars take it easy! Martinez wins. radsport-news.com, September 6, 2006, accessed December 30, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Euskaltel in the gold jersey for the first time. radsport-news.com, September 8, 2008, accessed December 30, 2014 .

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personal data
SURNAME Martínez, Egoi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martínez de Esteban, Egoi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Etxarri , Spain