Dag Otto Lauritzen (born 12 September 1956) is a Norwegian television personality and retired professional cyclist. At the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon ...

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 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

Luz Ardiden Luz Ardiden is a ski resort in the Pyrenees. It is situated in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, in the Occitanie Region. The ski resort lies at a height of 1720 meters and was opened on January 16, 1975. In recent years the road to 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 Gold medal blank

Road race, Nordic Road Championships : 1st MaillotNoruega

Team time trial, National Road Championships : 1st Roserittet DNV GP ;1984 : 1st Gold medal blank

Road race, Nordic Road Championships : 1st MaillotNoruega

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Stage 9

Tour of Austria The Tour of Austria (german: Internationale Österreich Rundfahrt) is a stage cycling race held in Austria. From 1949 to 1995 it was a race for amateur cyclists, turning into a professional event in 1996. In 2005 and 2006 it was organised as a 2 ...

: 3rd

Road race,

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;1985 : 1st GP de Peymeinade : 2nd Grand Prix d'Antibes ;1986 : 3rd

Tour du Haut Var The Tour du Haut Var ( en, Tour of the Haut Var) is an early-season two-day road bicycle race in the Var department region in the south of France. Until 2008 it was run as a one-day race, part of the UCI Europe Tour. In 2009, the race transformed ...

: 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 The Redlands Bicycle Classic is a cycling stage race located in Redlands, California, United States that has been held since 1985. It consists of three road races, an individual time trial and a criterium A criterium, or crit, is a bike race ...

::1st Stages 1, 2 & 3 ( TTT) : 7th La Flèche Wallonne : 7th Züri-Metzgete ;1988 : 2nd

International Cycling Classic The International Cycling Classic, also known as Superweek, was a stage race, multi-day cycling race held around Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The race took place annually from 1989 to 2011 and was contested over 17 days. Beginning in 1999, there was also ...

: 7th Amstel Gold Race : 9th

Rund um den Henninger Turm Rund is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Cathleen Rund (born 1977), German swimmer * Hanno Rund (1925–1993), German mathematician * Thorsten Rund (born 1976), German road and track cyclist See also * Rand (surname) * Ruud R ...

;1989 : 1st Overall

Tour de Trump The Tour DuPont was a cycling stage race in the United States held annually between 1989 and 1996, initially called the Tour de Trump in the first two years. It was intended to become a North American cycling event similar in format and prestige ...

: 3rd Tour of Flanders : 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 ...

: 10th Overall

Tour of Ireland The Tour of Ireland (Irish: Turas na hÉireann, known from 1985 to 1992 as the Nissan Classic) was a bicycle stage race held in August, which ran for 35 editions over a 56-year period. Irish rider Seán Kelly recorded the most wins, four. Th ...

;1990 : 1st MaillotNoruega

Time trial, National Road Championships : 1st Stage 4

: 3rd Trofeo Baracchi (with Sean Yates) ;1991 : 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 ...

: 7th Overall

;1992 : 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 Stages 2, 3 & 4 : 1st Overall

: 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

References

External links

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Official Tour de France results for Dag Otto Lauritzen
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lauritzen, Dag Otto 1956 births Living people Norwegian male cyclists Norwegian Tour de France stage winners Norwegian Vuelta a España stage winners Cyclists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Norway Olympic bronze medalists for Norway People from Grimstad Olympic medalists in cycling Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Agder