Pedro Horrillo
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Pedro Horrillo Muñoz (born September 27, 1974 in 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 philosophy student at university in Spain. Horrillo turn professional with the Vitalicio Seguros 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 Volta a Catalunya 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.
[edit] Palmares
- 2006
- Sachsen-Tour International stage 1
- 2005
- Volta Ciclista a Catalunya stage 3
- 2004
- Paris-Nice stage 2
- International UNIQA Classic stage 4
- 2003
- International UNIQA Classic stage 1
- 2002
- Euskal Bizikleta - Bicicleta Vasca stage 1
[edit] External links
| Riders on Rabobank |
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Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano | Michael Boogerd | Jan Boven | Graeme Brown | Thomas Dekker | Theo Eltink | Juan Antonio Flecha | Rick Flens | Óscar Freire | Robert Gesink | Bram de Groot | Mathew Hayman | Pedro Horrillo | Dmitri Kozontchuk | Sebastian Langeveld | Gerben Löwik | Marc de Maar | Denis Menchov | Koos Moerenhout | Grischa Niermann | Joost Posthuma | Michael Rasmussen | Kai Reus | Leon van Bon | Max van Heeswijk | Thorwald Veneberg | William Walker | Pieter Weening |
| Manager |
| Theo de Rooij |
