_(cropped).jpg) Lauritzen in May 2021 | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 12 September 1956 Grimstad, Norway | ||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||
| Amateur team | |||||||||||||||
| 1998 | – | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 1984–1986 | Peugeot–Shell–Michelin | ||||||||||||||
| 1987–1990 | 7 Eleven | ||||||||||||||
| 1991–1992 | Motorola | ||||||||||||||
| 1993–1994 | TVM–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)  National Champion (1984) National Time Trial Champion (1990) | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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.
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.
- ^ "Dag Otto Lauritzen Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Norway". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
- ^ "National Championship, Road, ITT, Elite, Norway 1990". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 23 August 2016.