Dag Otto Lauritzen

Dag Otto Lauritzen

Dag Otto Lauritzen (2010)
To person
Date of birth	September 12, 1956
nation	Norway
discipline	Road cycling
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
Most important successes
Olympic games 1984 - road racing
Last updated: February 12, 2017

Dag Otto Lauritzen (born  September 12, 1956 in Grimstad ) is a former Norwegian cyclist .

Athletic career

Lauritzen became national team time trial champion in 1983 and won the individual road races of the Nordic championships in 1983 and 1984. In 1984 he was also the Norwegian champion in the individual road race and won the ninth stage of the Tour of Austria . At the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the same year , he won the bronze medal in road racing behind the American Alexi Grewal and the Canadian Steve Bauer . During his time as an amateur, he was a member of the Glåmdal cycling club.

After the games, Dag Otto Lauritzen switched to the professionals and came third in the overall ranking of the Tour du Haut-Var in 1986 . A year later he won the race around the Henninger Tower and the 14th stage of the Tour de France in Luz Ardiden , making it the first. In 1989 he won the overall classification of the Tour de Trump, from which the Tour DuPont emerged in 1991 , and took third place in the overall classification of the Tour of Flanders . In 1993 he won the third stage of the Tour of Britain and the 14th stage of the Vuelta a España . He started several times at the UCI World Championships in road racing for the Norwegian national team. He achieved his best result in 1986 in Colorado Springs in the USA with 25th place.

Professional

Before his career as a cyclist, Dag Otto Lauritzen was a police officer and paratrooper . In 1980 he had a serious accident while skydiving, four years later he won bronze at the Olympics.

At the end of 1994 Lauritzen retired from competitive sports. He then worked as a sports commentator for the Norwegian TV channel TV2 at cycling events and as an ambassador for the city of Tromsø's application to host the Winter Olympics in 2018. In 2007, he took part in the Norwegian edition of a dance show and took second place. Lauritzen regularly moderates TV programs aimed at encouraging viewers to engage in sporting activities.

successes

1983

• Nordic Amateur Championship - Road Racing
• Norwegian Champion - Team Time Trial (with Morten Sæther , Jon Rangfred Hansen and Tom Pedersen )
• Rose rode

1984

• Olympic Games - Road Racing
• one stage tour of Austria
• Nordic Amateur Championship - Road Racing
• Norwegian champion - road race

1986

• one stage tour of Sweden

1987

• a stage Tour de France
• Overall standings and three stages of the Redlands Bicycle Classic
• Around the Henninger Tower

1989

• Tour de Trump

1990

• a stage Tour de Trump
• Norwegian champion - road race

1992

• Overall ranking and three stages of the Tour of Norway

1993

• a stage Vuelta a España
• a stage three days from De Panne
• one stage Tour of Britain

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	DNF	-
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	64	-	-	-	-	-
Tour de France	34	38	34	DNF	56	DNF	-	90	50

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 1984-1986 Peugeot
• 1987-1990 7-Eleven
• 1991-1992 Motorola
• 1993-1994 TVM bison kit

Web links

• Dag Otto Lauritzen in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Dag Otto Lauritzen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Dag Otto Lauritzen in the Tour de France database(French / English )
• Website by Dag Otto Lauritzen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Norges Cykleforbund (Ed.): Norsk Sykkelsports Historie . Self-published by NCF, Oslo 2000, p. 79 (Norwegian).
2. ^ Helmer Boelsen: The history of the cycling world championships . Covadonga, Bielefeld, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4 , p. 226 .