A VETERAN bull fighter has been left with horrific injuries after being gored through the leg in his first fight of the year.

Serafin Marin, 42, suffered a 30cm deep goring through his leg on Sunday, when he was impaled by a bull at Spain's largest bullring in Madrid.

In terrifying footage captured by the audience, Marin had just completed a veronica pass - where the bull fighter moves the cape slowly from one side of the body to the other with both hands - when he was hoisted into the air by the bull's horn.

After becoming airborne, Marin was then thrown to the ground and four other bullfighters stepped into the ring to distract the animal.

Marin later said he "didn't realise" he'd been gored until he entered the infirmary.

"I was really stunned and dizzy from the blow to the head,"

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