# Dag Erik Pedersen

Dag Erik Pedersen (6 June 1959 – 3 June 2024) was a 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 the Netherlands. He won the Norwegian National Road Race Championship in 1992.
After he retired as a cyclist he began working for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation where until his death he worked as an anchor. He won best news and sports anchor in Norway in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2008. He spoke fluent English, German, Italian, French, Dutch and basic Spanish.
Pedersen also worked 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 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.
In an interview with Norwegian media VG/NRK, Pedersen did not rule out that he might have been drugged when, in the 1980s, he got injections whose content he did not know.
Already in 2008, Pedersen was saying that injections with unknown content were 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.
Pedersen died in Helgeroa on 3 June 2024, at the age of 64.

## Major results
### 1977

    National Junior Road Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial

### 1979

    1st Overall Ringerike GP
    2nd Overall Tour de Berlin

### 1980

    2nd Overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt

### 1981

    1st Overall GP Tell
    1st Overall Ringerike GP
    1st Stage 9 Milk Race

### 1982

    1st Giro del Lazio
    5th Giro dell'Emilia
    5th GP Industria & Artigianato
    7th Coppa Agostoni
    8th Overall Ruota d'Oro

### 1983

    2nd Giro del Veneto
    3rd Giro dell'Emilia
    3rd Overall Tour of the Americas
    4th Overall Tour de Romandie
    8th Overall Tour of Sweden

### 1984

    1st Overall Tour of Norway
       1st Stage 4
    2nd Giro di Campania
    6th Milan–San Remo
    7th Overall Giro del Trentino
    10th Overall Giro d'Italia
       1st Stages 9 & 16
    10th Paris–Tours

### 1986

    1st Stage 15 Giro d'Italia
    2nd Giro dell'Emilia
    3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
    3rd Overall Giro di Puglia
    3rd GP Industria & Artigianato
    4th Giro dell'Etna
    6th Trofeo Pantalica
    7th Tre Valli Varesine
    7th Züri-Metzgete
    8th Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe
    8th Giro del Trentino
    10th Paris–Tours
    10th Giro di Campania
    10th Nice–Alassio

### 1987

    4th Grand Prix Cerami
    9th Milan–San Remo
    9th Overall Tour de Romandie

### 1989

    1st Overall Tour of Norway
       1st Stages 1 & 5
    2nd Milano–Torino
    5th Brabantse Pijl

### 1990

    1st Overall Ringerike GP
       1st Stage 5
    2nd Overall Tour of Norway
       1st Stages 4, 5 & 6

### 1991

    1st Overall Tour of Norway
       1st Stages 2 & 5
    2nd Overall Tour of Sweden
       1st Stages 3 & 6

### 1992

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    3rd Overall Tour of Norway

### 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 |