Mikel Artetxe

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**Mikel Artetxe**
Personal information
Full name	Mikel Artetxe Gezuraga
Date of birth	September 24, 1976 (1976-09-24) (age 31)
Country	Spain
Height	1.76 m
Weight	64 kg
Team information
Current team	Fuerteventura-Canarias
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
1995-2005 2006 2007-	Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 Molinos Resort Fuerteventura-Canarias
Infobox last updated on:
January 14, 2007

Mikel Artetxe Gezuraga (born September 24, 1976 in Larrabetzu, Basque Country) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer for the Professional Continental team Fuerteventura-Canarias. He turned professional in 1999 with Euskaltel-Euskadi, where he stayed for seven seasons. In his time with Euskaltel-Euskadi, Artetxe took two stages and the overall victory in GP Jornal de Noticias in 2000, a stage victory in the 2001 Vuelta a Andalucía and a stage victory in the 2002 Trofeu Joaquim Agostinho.

At the start of the 2006 season, Artetxe moved a division down to the newly-formed 3 Molinos Resort team. Here he has had the biggest wins of his career so far, with a stage win in the Vuelta Asturias and the Metas Volantes competition in Trofeu Joaquim Agostinho. With the rapid demise of 3 Molinos Resort, Artetxe moved to the newly formed Fuerteventura-Canarias team.