Dag Otto Lauritzen

Dag Otto Lauritzen

Lauritzen in May 2021
Personal information
Born	(1956-09-12) 12 September 1956 (age 68) 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 Men's road bicycle racing Representing   Norway Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Individual Road Race

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.

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 ^[4]

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 [5]
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 timeline
Race	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994
Paris–Nice	—	—	23	—	—	—	48	—	56	—	—
Tirreno–Adriatico	—	—	—	14	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Critérium du Dauphiné	—	DNF	55	—	—	—	44	52	—	—	—
Tour de Suisse	—	—	—	62	—	—	36	57	61	31	—

Monuments and Classics results timeline

Monuments results timeline
	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994
Milan–San Remo	—	102	—	—	46	53	43	—	14	47	49
Tour of Flanders	—	—	—	17	32	3	—	—	34	18	51
Paris–Roubaix	—	—	—	30	33	—	—	80	55	—	36
Liège–Bastogne–Liège	—	—	—	13	29	38	—	63	16	60	63
Giro di Lombardia	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	34	—	62	—
Classics results timeline
	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994
Amstel Gold Race	—	—	—	15	7	13	—	43	35	—	—
La Flèche Wallonne	—	65	—	7	28	23	—	—	—	33	—
Gent–Wevelgem	—	56	—	87	17	27	—	126	64	—	22
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	25	—	46
Brabantse Pijl	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	10
Paris–Tours	—	64	—	—	—	41	—	34	—	25	40

Major championships results timeline

Event		1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994
Olympic Games	Time trial	Not held
	Road race	3	Not held			—	Not held			—	Not held
Road World Championships	Time trial	Not held
	Road race	30	39	25	—	37	—	39	—	33	7	30
National Championships	Time trial							1
	Road race	1

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish
DSQ	Disqualified

References

1. "Dag Otto Lauritzen Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
2. "National Championship, Road, Elite, Norway". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
3. "National Championship, Road, ITT, Elite, Norway 1990". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
4. Margolis, Jon (15 May 1989). "The 1st Tour De Trump Is Over, As We All Know". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
5. "Grand tour starts | ProCyclingStats".

External links

• Official website
• Official Tour de France results for Dag Otto Lauritzen
• Dag Otto Lauritzen at Cycling Archives