Dag Erik Pedersen

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Dag Erik Pedersen (born June 6, 1959), Norwegian 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. Pedersen won a total of 43 professional races in his 12 years in Italy an Holland.

After he retired as a cyclist he began working for NRK where he now works as a sports anchor. He speaks fluent Norwegian, English, German, Italian, French, Dutch and basic Spanish, and Russian.

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 price winner Rigoberta Menchu and Bernard Couchner.

He won best news and sports anchor in Norway in 2002, 2004 and 2005.

In the early 1980s he had a career as a pop singer issuing two singles and an album (Gatelangs)