Dag Erik Pedersen (born 6 June 1959) is a retired Norwegian

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with a long career as professional. He won 3 stages in the Giro d'Italia and he came 4th in the Road race in the 1981 World Championship. He was a member of

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, previously for Larvik SK and Grenland SK before he turned professional after the worlds in September 1981. Pedersen won a total of 43 professional races in his 12 years in Italy and Holland. He won the Norwegian National Road Race Championship in 1992. After he retired as a cyclist he began working for the

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where he now works as an anchor. He won best news and sports anchor in Norway in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2008. He speaks fluent English,

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, Italian,

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, Dutch and basic Spanish. Pedersen has also been working with film director Nils Gaup on several occasions. Best known are "When Dylan came to Langesund" and "Deadline Torp". In 2000, he made a TV documentary about King Harald of Norway. He has also made TV portraits of famous people like Sir Paul McCartney, Andrea Bocelli,

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, Kronprins Haakon of Norway, Nobel Peace Prize winner

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and

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. In the early 1980s he had a career as a pop singer issuing two singles and the album Gatelangs. He spent 24 days in prison in 1994 for speeding. In an interview with Norwegian media VG/ NRK., Pedersen did not exclude that he might have been drugged, when he in the 1980s got injections in which he did not know the content. Already in 2008, Pedersen said that injections with unknown content was a part of the normal daily routines as a bicycle professional. Pedersen tested positive for ephedrine at the 1981

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(Tour of Britain) and got a one-month suspension.Slik svarer eks-syklistene på dopingspørsmål
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Major results

;1977 : National Junior Road Championships ::1st MaillotNoruega

Road race ::1st MaillotNoruega

Time trial ;1979 : 1st Overall

Ringerike GP Ringerike Grand Prix is a road bicycle race held annually near Hønefoss, in the region of Ringerike, Norway. The race was created in 1975 as the Fossen Grand Prix, and was ranked 2.2 on the UCI Europe Tour between 2005 and 2010. In 2011 it turn ...

: 2nd Overall

Tour de Berlin The Tour de Berlin was a road bicycle race held annually between 1953 and 2016 in Germany. From 2007 to its demise, the race was organised as a 2.2U event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing com ...

;1980 : 2nd Overall

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;1981 : 1st Overall

GP Tell The Grand Prix Guillaume Tell (, "William Tell Grand Prize") was a professional cycling race held annually in Switzerland. It was part of UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were in ...

: 1st Overall

: 1st Stage 9

;1982 : 1st

Giro del Lazio The Giro del Lazio is a semi classic European bicycle race held in the region of Lazio, Italy. From 2005 to 2008, the race has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing ...

: 5th Giro dell'Emilia : 5th

GP Industria & Artigianato The GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano is a road bicycle race held annually in Larciano, Italy. After 2005, the race was organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing compet ...

: 7th

Coppa Agostoni The Coppa Ugo Agostoni is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Lissone, Italy. The race is held in memory of Italian cyclist Ugo Agostoni, winner of prestigious classic Milan–San Remo, killed during World War II. It is also called ''Gir ...

: 8th Overall

Ruota d'Oro The Ruota d'Oro is a professional one day cycling race held annually in Italy. It is part of UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Interna ...

;1983 : 2nd Giro del Veneto : 3rd Giro dell'Emilia : 3rd Overall Tour of the Americas : 4th Overall Tour de Romandie : 8th Overall Tour of Sweden ;1984 : 1st Overall

Tour of Norway The Tour of Norway is a road bicycle race held annually in Norway. It is considered as a successor to the stage race Ringerike GP, which is now a one-day race. It was started in 2011 as a result of the heightened interest in cycling in Norway, ma ...

::1st Stage 4 : 2nd Giro di Campania : 6th

Milan–San Remo Milan–San Remo (in Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance of 298 km (~185.2 miles) it is t ...

: 7th Overall

Giro del Trentino The Tour of the Alps is an annual professional cycling stage race in Italy and Austria. First held in 1962, it was named Giro del Trentino ( en, Tour of Trentino) until 2016, and run over four stages in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region o ...

: 10th Overall Giro d'Italia ::1st Stages 9 & 16 : 10th

Paris–Tours Paris–Tours is a French one-day classic road cycling race held every October from the outskirts of Paris to the cathedral city of Tours. It is a predominantly flat course through the Chevreuse and Loire valleys; the highest point is 200 m, ...

;1986 : 1st Stage 15 Giro d'Italia : 2nd Giro dell'Emilia : 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 3rd Overall

Giro di Puglia The Giro di Puglia ( en, Tour of Apulia) was a road bicycle racing stage race A race stage, leg, or heat is a unit of a race that has been divided in several parts for the reason such as length of the distance to be covered, as in a multi-da ...

: 3rd

: 4th

Giro dell'Etna The Giro dell'Etna was a one-day road cycling race held annually in Sicily (man) it, Siciliana (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 ...

: 6th

Trofeo Pantalica The Trofeo Pantalica was a professional road bicycle race held annually in Province of Syracuse, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the ...

: 7th Tre Valli Varesine : 7th Züri-Metzgete : 8th Overall

Circuit Cycliste Sarthe The Circuit de la Sarthe-Pays de la Loire ( en, Circuit of Sarthe) is an early-season short road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour ...

: 8th

: 10th

: 10th Giro di Campania : 10th

Nice–Alassio Nice–Alassio was a professional one-day road cycling race that was held from 1979 until 1997. It was known as Monte Carlo–Alassio from 1993 to 1996 and the Alassio Cup in 1997. The race was held in February as a preparation race for Milan–Sa ...

;1987 : 4th Grand Prix Cerami : 9th

: 9th Overall Tour de Romandie ;1989 : 1st Overall

::1st Stages 1 & 5 : 2nd Milano–Torino : 5th Brabantse Pijl ;1990 : 1st Overall

::1st Stage 5 : 2nd Overall

::1st Stages 4, 5 & 6 ;1991 : 1st Overall

::1st Stages 2 & 5 : 2nd Overall Tour of Sweden ::1st Stages 3 & 6 ;1992 : 1st MaillotNoruega

Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

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