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
Major stage race general classification results timeline
Monuments and Classics results timeline
Major championships results timeline
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