Pedro Horrillo

Who is Pedro Horrillo?

Pedro Horrillo Muñoz is a retired Spanish racing cyclist who rode for Rabobank in the UCI ProTour from 2005 to 2009.

Before turning professional in 1998, Horrillo was a philosophy student at the University of the Basque Country. Horrillo turned professional with the Vitalicio Seguros team which included notable names such as Óscar Freire and Juan Miguel Mercado who would win three stages between them in the 2006 Tour de France. In 2001 Horrillo joined Freire at Mapei-Quick Step; he would later ride for Quick Step-Davitamon when the Italian company decided not to renew its sponsorship. His biggest win was a stage at the 2004 Paris–Nice race.

In 2005, Horrillo won a stage at the 2005 Volta a Catalunya and nearly won a 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 have been it - and if possible, in the rain because that's the real Roubaix when it rains".

Horrillo is known as a good writer and in recent years has written columns for de Volkskrant during the Tour de France and is a regular contributor to the Spanish newspaper El País. In 2009 he wrote a column concerning the UCI's whereabouts system called El Señor Adams for El País. The English version was entitled Mr Adams.