Global InformationDag Erik Pedersen information
 Pedersen in 2008 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Dag Erik Pedersen |
| Born | 6 June 1959 Skien, Norway |
| Died | 3 June 2024 (aged 64) Helgeroa, Norway |
| Team information | |
| 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
One-day races and Classics
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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.[1]
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.[citation needed] 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 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.[4]
Pedersen died in Helgeroa on 3 June 2024, at the age of 64, three days before his 65th birthday.[5]
- ^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Norway". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
- ^ Enger, Thomas. "Stjernene det lukter svidd av". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 6 October 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
- ^ Jøssing, Helge. "Dag Erik Pedersen kan ha vært dopet". NRK Nettavisen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 28 October 2012.
- ^ Slik svarer eks-syklistene på dopingspørsmål, vg.no, 1. October 2010 (in Norwegian)
- ^ Iversen, Magnus Skatvedt (4 June 2024). "Dag Erik Pedersen er død". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 4 June 2024.