10 Facts About Pedro Horrillo

Pedro Horrillo Munoz is a Spanish retired racing cyclist who rode as a professional for Mapei, Quick-Step and Rabobank.

Pedro Horrillo was forced to retire from professional cycling after a crash in the 2009 Giro d'Italia.

Pedro Horrillo turned professional with the Vitalicio Seguros team which included notable names such as Oscar Freire and Juan Miguel Mercado who would win three stages between them in the 2006 Tour de France.

In 2005, Pedro Horrillo won a stage at the 2005 Volta a Catalunya and nearly won a stage at the 2005 Vuelta a Espana with a late attack until he was caught 200 metres from the line.

On 16 May 2009, during the eighth stage of the Giro d'Italia, Pedro Horrillo experienced a horror crash, leaving him with life-threatening injuries.

Pedro Horrillo had missed a curve in the descent of the Colle San Pietro and fallen 60 meters into a ravine before alpine paramedics could recover him.

Pedro Horrillo was found because his bike had clung onto the railing by the roadside, as he was alone when the crash happened.

Pedro Horrillo woke up in the ambulance on its way hospital, but doctors put him into a chemically induced coma to aid his treatment, having suffered multiple fractures to his thigh bones, kneecap and neck, in addition to a punctured lung.

Pedro Horrillo was taken out of the coma the following day, with scans revealing no brain injury, and Rabobank team doctors stated that he was to be moved to a hospital in Spain within ten days.

Five weeks after the crash, after being transferred to Spain, it was announced that Pedro Horrillo was able to go home.