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.
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.[5]
