Dag Erik Pedersen

Dag Erik Pedersen, 2008
Personal information
Full name	Dag Erik Pedersen
Born	(1959-06-06) 6 June 1959 Skien, Norway
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1982–1983	Bianchi–Piaggio
1984–1985	Murella–Rossin
1986–1987	Ariostea–Gres
1988–1989	PDM–Ultima–Concorde
1990	TVM
1991	Del Tongo–MG Boys
Major wins
Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 3 individual stages (1984, 1986) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (1992)

Dag Erik Pedersen (born 6 June 1959) is a retired Norwegian road racing cyclist with a long career as professional. He won 3 stages in the Giro d'Italia and he came 4th in the Road race in the 1981 World Championship. He was a member of Birkenes IL, previously for Larvik SK and Grenland SK before he turned professional after the worlds in September 1981.

Pedersen won a total of 43 professional races in his 12 years in Italy and Holland. He won the Norwegian National Road Race Championship in 1992.^[1]

After he retired as a cyclist he began working for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation where he now works as an anchor. He won best news and sports anchor in Norway in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2008. He speaks fluent English, German, Italian, French, Dutch and basic Spanish.

Pedersen has also been working with film director Nils Gaup on several occasions. Best known are "When Dylan came to Langesund" and "Deadline Torp". In 2000, he made a TV documentary about King Harald of Norway. He has also made TV portraits of famous people like Sir Paul McCartney, Andrea Bocelli, B. B. King, Michael Persbrandt, Rod Stewart, Kronprins Haakon of Norway, Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú and Bernard Kouchner. In the early 1980s he had a career as a pop singer issuing two singles and the album Gatelangs.

He spent 24 days in prison in 1994 for speeding.^[2]

In an interview with Norwegian media VG/NRK.,^[3] Pedersen did not exclude that he might have been drugged, when he in the 1980s got injections in which he did not know the content.

Already in 2008, Pedersen said that injections with unknown content was a part of the normal daily routines as a bicycle professional. Pedersen tested positive for ephedrine at the 1981 Milk Race (Tour of Britain) and got a one-month suspension.^[4]

Major results

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Giro d'Italia	10	DNF	81	59	DNF	—	DNF
Tour de France	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References