About Víctor Hugo Peña
Born 1974. Víctor Hugo Peña is a Colombian sport cyclist and sporting director.
Víctor Hugo Peña Grisales (born July 10, 1974 in Bogotá) is a Colombian former professional road racing cyclist. He last rode for the professional cycling team. In 2003, Peña became the first Colombian to wear the yellow jersey at the Tour de France. He held the yellow jersey for three days following the 4th, 5th and 6th stages of that year's tour.
Peña's 2003 Tour de France, where he served as a domestique for Lance Armstrong, is described in detail in Matt Rendell's book A Significant Other. The book also describes the rider's amateur and early professional career.
He is named after both his father Hugo and the author Victor Hugo. He earned his nickname "El Tiburon" ("the shark") due to his looks and the other sport he excelled at besides cycling – swimming. Peña finished 7th in the 100 meter freestyle Pan American swimming championships for juniors in 1991.
At the end of the season in 2012, Peña retired. Later, Pena was implicated in the 2012 USADA Reasoned Report into doping on the US Postal team and was concluded to work with Dr. Michele Ferrari and received blood transfusions during his Tour de France participations.
Major results
1996 7th Time trial, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships 1997 (1 pro win) 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 1998
8th Overall Vuelta a Colombia
1st Prologue & Stage 6 10th Overall Volta a Catalunya 2000 (1) 1st Stage 11 (ITT) Giro d'Italia 2001 3rd EnBW Grand Prix 2002 (2)
3rd Overall Ronde van Nederland 1st Stage 4 (ITT) 2003 (1) 1st Stage 4 (TTT) Tour de France
2nd Overall Volta ao Algarve 6th Overall Vuelta a Murcia 1st Stage 4 7th GP Eddy Merckx 10th Overall Ronde van Nederland 2004 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España 2nd Overall Volta ao Algarve 4th Overall Tour of Belgium 10th Overall Danmark Rundt 2005 10th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships 2006 9th Overall Giro d'Italia 2007
3rd Duo Normand (with Gustav Larsson) 2008 1st Stage 7 Vuelta a Colombia 2009 1st Stage 12 Vuelta a Colombia 6th GP Llodio 2010 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships 2014 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Víctor Hugo Peña. https://biography.guide/victor-hugo-pena/
MLA: "Víctor Hugo Peña." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/victor-hugo-pena/.
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