Dag Otto Lauritzen (born 13 September 1956) is a Norwegian television personality and retired professional cyclist. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles he won a bronze medal in the individual road race.[1] He was the first Norwegian to win a stage of the Tour de France, which he did on Bastille Day in 1987 at Luz Ardiden. Over his career he rode the Tour de France eight times.

Dag Otto Lauritzen
Lauritzen in May 2021
Personal information
Born (1956-09-12) 12 September 1956 (age 68)
Grimstad, Norway
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeAll-rounder
Amateur team
1998
Professional teams
1984–1986Peugeot–Shell–Michelin
1987–19907 Eleven
1991–1992Motorola
1993–1994TVM–Bison Kit
Major wins
Nordic champion (1984, 1985)
Postgirot Open, 1 stage (1986)
Rund um den Henninger Turm, (1987)
Redlands Bicycle Classic (1987)
Tour de France, 1 stage (1987)
Vuelta a España, 1 stage (1993)
Norway National Champion (1984)
Norway National Time Trial Champion (1990)
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing  Norway
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1984 Los Angeles Individual Road Race

Lauritzen began cycling to recuperate from a military parachuting injury, and switched careers from police officer to cyclist. He won the Norwegian National Road Race Championship in 1984 and the Norwegian National Time Trial Championship in 1990.[2][3]

He is now a cycling commentator on Norwegian TV station TV 2.

Major results

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1983
1st   Road race, Nordic Road Championships
1st   Team time trial, National Road Championships
1st Roserittet DNV GP
1984
1st   Road race, Nordic Road Championships
1st   Road race, National Road Championships
1st Stage 9 Tour of Austria
3rd   Road race, Summer Olympics
1985
1st GP de Peymeinade
2nd Grand Prix d'Antibes
1986
3rd Tour du Haut Var
3rd   Road race, Nordic Road Championships
6th Overall Tour of Sweden
1st Stage 7
1987
1st Rund um den Henninger-Turm
1st Stage 14 Tour de France
1st Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
1st Stages 1, 2 & 3 (TTT)
7th La Flèche Wallonne
7th Züri-Metzgete
1988
2nd International Cycling Classic
7th Amstel Gold Race
9th Rund um den Henninger Turm
1989
1st Overall Tour de Trump[4]
3rd Tour of Flanders
4th Giro dell'Etna
10th Overall Tour of Ireland
1990
1st   Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Stage 4 Tour de Trump
3rd Trofeo Baracchi (with Sean Yates)
1991
1st Overall Ringerike GP
7th Overall Tour of Ireland
1992
1st Overall Tour of Norway
1st Stages 2, 3 & 4
1st Overall Ringerike GP
9th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
1993
1st Stage 15 Vuelta a España
1st Stage 3 Kellogg's Tour
1st Stage 1a Three Days of De Panne
7th Road race, UCI Road World Championships

General classification results timeline

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Grand Tour general classification results timeline[5]
Grand Tour 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
  Giro d'Italia DNF 64
  Tour de France 34 39 34 DNF 56 DNF 90 50
  Vuelta a España 48

Major stage race general classification results timeline

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Major stage race general classification results timeline
Race 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
  Paris–Nice 23 48 56
  Tirreno–Adriatico 14
  Critérium du Dauphiné DNF 55 44 52
  Tour de Suisse 62 36 57 61 31

Monuments and Classics results timeline

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Monuments results timeline
1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
Milan–San Remo 102 46 53 43 14 47 49
Tour of Flanders 17 32 3 34 18 51
Paris–Roubaix 30 33 80 55 36
Liège–Bastogne–Liège 13 29 38 63 16 60 63
Giro di Lombardia 34 62
Classics results timeline
1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
Amstel Gold Race 15 7 13 43 35
La Flèche Wallonne 65 7 28 23 33
Gent–Wevelgem 56 87 17 27 126 64 22
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 25 46
Brabantse Pijl 10
Paris–Tours 64 41 34 25 40

Major championships results timeline

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Event 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
  Olympic Games Time trial Not held
Road race 3 Not held Not held Not held
  Road World Championships Time trial Not held
Road race 30 39 25 37 39 33 7 30
  National Championships Time trial 1
Road race 1
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
DSQ Disqualified

References

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  1. ^ "Dag Otto Lauritzen Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  2. ^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Norway". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  3. ^ "National Championship, Road, ITT, Elite, Norway 1990". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  4. ^ Margolis, Jon (15 May 1989). "The 1st Tour De Trump Is Over, As We All Know". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  5. ^ "Grand tour starts | ProCyclingStats".
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