Dag Erik Pedersen (6 June 1959 – 3 June 2024) was a Norwegian

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with a long career as professional. He won 3 stages in the

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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

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where until his death he worked as an

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. He won best news and sports anchor in Norway in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2008. He spoke fluent English,

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, French, Dutch and basic

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. 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

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, B. B. King, Michael Persbrandt,

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, Kronprins Haakon of Norway,

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winner

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and

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. 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

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. In an interview with Norwegian media VG/

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, 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

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at the 1981

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(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 MaillotNoruega

Road race ::1st MaillotNoruega

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;1979 : 1st Overall Ringerike GP : 2nd Overall

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;1980 : 2nd Overall

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;1981 : 1st Overall GP Tell : 1st Overall Ringerike GP : 1st Stage 9

;1982 : 1st

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: 5th

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: 5th GP Industria & Artigianato : 7th

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: 8th Overall

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;1983 : 2nd

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: 3rd

: 3rd Overall Tour of the Americas : 4th Overall

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: 8th Overall

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;1984 : 1st Overall Tour of Norway ::1st Stage 4 : 2nd

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: 6th

Milan–San Remo Milan–Sanremo (in italian language, Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road bicycle racing, road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance ...

: 7th Overall Giro del Trentino : 10th Overall

::1st Stages 9 & 16 : 10th

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;1986 : 1st Stage 15

: 2nd

: 3rd

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: 3rd Overall Giro di Puglia : 3rd GP Industria & Artigianato : 4th Giro dell'Etna : 6th Trofeo Pantalica : 7th

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: 7th

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: 8th Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe : 8th Giro del Trentino : 10th

: 10th

: 10th Nice–Alassio ;1987 : 4th Grand Prix Cerami : 9th

: 9th Overall

;1989 : 1st Overall Tour of Norway ::1st Stages 1 & 5 : 2nd

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: 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

::1st Stages 3 & 6 ;1992 : 1st MaillotNoruega

Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall Tour of Norway

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

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