Pedro Horrillo

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Pedro Horrillo Muñoz (born September 27 1974in Eibar in the Basque region) is a Spanish racing cyclist who rides for Rabobank in the UCI ProTour. Horillo signed fo Rabobank in 2005.

Before turning professional in 1998, Horrillo was philosphy student at university in Spain. Horrillo turn professional with the Vitalicio Serguros team which included notebale names such as Óscar Freire and Juan Miguel Mercado who would both win three stages between them in the 2006 Tour de France. In 2001 Horrillo joined Freire at Mapei which he would later ride for Quick Step-Innergetic when the Italian company decided not to renew it's sponsorship. His biggest win with Quick Step and still to date was a stage at the 2004 Paris-Nice race.

In 2005 Horrillo won a stage at the 2005 Tour of Catalonia and nearly won at stage at the 2005 Vuelta a España with a late attack until he was caught 200 metres from the line. Horrillo is a self confessed fan of Paris-Roubaix describing it as: "If I could only have ridden one race as a pro, that would of have been it - and if Possible, in the rain because that's the real Roubaix when it rains" (Cycle Sport magazine interview, November 2006 issue).

Horrillo has a partner called Lorena.