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. 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.
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.
He is now a cycling commentator on Norwegian TV station TV 2.
Major results
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 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 Grand Tour general classification results timeline 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 Major stage race general classification results timelineRace19841985198619871988198919901991199219931994 Paris–Nice — —23 — — —48 —56 — — Tirreno–Adriatico — — — 14 — — — — — — — Critérium du Dauphiné —DNF55 — — —4452 — — — Tour de Suisse — — —62 — —36576131 —
Monuments and Classics results timeline Monuments results timeline19841985198619871988198919901991199219931994Milan–San Remo — 102 — — 46 53 43 — 14 47 49Tour of Flanders — — — 17 323 — — 34 18 51Paris–Roubaix — — — 30 33 — — 80 55 — 36Liège–Bastogne–Liège — — — 13 29 38 — 63 16 60 63Giro di Lombardia — — — — — — — 34 — 62 —Classics results timeline19841985198619871988198919901991199219931994Amstel Gold Race — — — 15 7 13 — 43 35 — —La Flèche Wallonne — 65 — 7 28 23 — — — 33 —Gent–Wevelgem — 56 — 87 17 27 — 126 64 — 22Omloop Het Nieuwsblad — — — — — — — — 25 — 46Brabantse Pijl — — — — — — — — — — 10Paris–Tours — 64 — — — 41 — 34 — 25 40
Major championships results timeline Event 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 Olympic GamesTime trial colspan="11" rowspan="1" Road race3 colspan="3" rowspan="1" — colspan="3" rowspan="1" —colspan="2" rowspan="1" Road World ChampionshipsTime trial colspan="11" rowspan="1" Road race 30 39 25 — 37 — 39 — 337 30 National Championships Time trial 1 Road race 1
+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish DSQ Disqualified
References
External links
Official Tour de France results for Dag Otto Lauritzen