Dag Otto Lauritzen

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 Gold medal blank.svg Road race, Nordic Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotNoruega.PNG Team time trial, National Road Championships
 * 1st Roserittet DNV GP


 * 1984
 * 1st Gold medal blank.svg Road race, Nordic Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotNoruega.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
 * 1st Stage 9 Tour of Austria
 * 3rd Bronze medal.svg Road race, Summer Olympics


 * 1985
 * 1st GP de Peymeinade
 * 2nd Grand Prix d'Antibes


 * 1986
 * 3rd Tour du Haut Var
 * 3rd Bronze medal blank.svg 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 MaillotNoruega.PNG 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