Dag Otto Lauritzen Explained

Dag Otto Lauritzen
Birth Date:1956 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Grimstad, Norway
Discipline:Road
Role:Rider
Ridertype:All-rounder
Amateuryears1:1998
Amateurteam1:
Proyears1:1984–1986
Proyears2:1987–1990
Proteam2:7 Eleven
Proyears3:1991–1992
Proteam3:Motorola
Proyears4:1993–1994
Majorwins: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)
Show-Medals:yes

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 Tour19841985198619871988198919901991199219931994
    Giro d'ItaliaDNF64
    Tour de France343934DNF56DNF9050
    Vuelta a España48

    Major stage race general classification results timeline

    Major stage race general classification results timeline
    Race19841985198619871988198919901991199219931994
    Paris–Nice234856
    Tirreno–Adriatico14
    Critérium du DauphinéDNF554452
    Tour de Suisse6236576131

    Monuments and Classics results timeline

    Monuments results timeline
    19841985198619871988198919901991199219931994
    Milan–San Remo102465343144749
    Tour of Flanders17323341851
    Paris–Roubaix3033805536
    Liège–Bastogne–Liège13293863166063
    Giro di Lombardia3462
    Classics results timeline
    19841985198619871988198919901991199219931994
    Amstel Gold Race157134335
    La Flèche Wallonne657282333
    Gent–Wevelgem568717271266422
    Omloop Het Nieuwsblad2546
    Brabantse Pijl10
    Paris–Tours6441342540

    Major championships results timeline

    Event19841985198619871988198919901991199219931994
    Olympic GamesTime trialcolspan="11" rowspan="1"
    Road race3colspan="2" rowspan="1"
    Road World ChampionshipsTime trialcolspan="11" rowspan="1"
    Road race303925373933730
    National ChampionshipsTime trial1
    Road race1
    Legend
    Did not compete
    DNFDid not finish
    DSQDisqualified

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Dag Otto Lauritzen Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418034830/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/la/dag-otto-lauritzen-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 25 May 2015 . Sports Reference.
    2. Web site: National Championship, Road, Elite, Norway . 6 April 2015 . Cycling Archives.
    3. Web site: National Championship, Road, ITT, Elite, Norway 1990 . 23 August 2016 . Cycling Archives.
    4. News: The 1st Tour De Trump Is Over, As We All Know. Jon. Margolis. Chicago Tribune. 15 May 1989. 12 April 2016.
    5. Web site: Grand tour starts | ProCyclingStats.