Michael Freiberg

Michael Freiberg (born 10 October 1990) is an Australian track and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team ARA Pro Racing Sunshine Coast.[5]

Michael Freiberg
Personal information
Full nameMichael Freiberg
Born (1990-10-10) 10 October 1990
Hong Kong[1]
Height1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight82 kg (181 lb)
Team information
Current teamARA Pro Racing Sunshine Coast
Disciplines
RoleRider
Rider typeOmnium (track)
Amateur teams
2009Australian Institute of Sport[1]
2013Bianchi–Lotto–Nieuwe Hoop Tielen[1]
Professional teams
2010Team Jayco–Skins[1]
2011V Australia[2]
2012Team Jayco–AIS[3]
2017–2018IsoWhey Sports SwissWellness[3]
2019–Pro Racing Sunshine Coast[4]
Major wins
Single-day races and Classics
National Road Race Championships (2019)

Career

Track career

At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Freiberg was part of the Australian squad which took gold in the team pursuit, and also took an individual silver in the scratch race.[3] He became world champion in the omnium event at the 2011 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.[6] However Cycling Australia did not select him for either the team pursuit or omnium at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, thus preventing him from defending his title on home soil in Melbourne,[7] and he was similarly not picked for the Australian squad for the 2012 Summer Olympics, being passed over in favour of Glenn O'Shea for the omnium in both championships.[8]

Hiatus

Freiberg subsequently put his racing career on hold in order to develop the Automated Integrated Resistance hub (AIRhub), a resistance training unit designed to simulate mountain riding on flat roads, which is used by a number of UCI WorldTour professionals in their training, including André Greipel, Mathew Hayman, Adam Hansen, Esteban Chaves and Luke Durbridge.[9][10]

Return to cycling

Freiberg subsequently returned to competition in 2017, joining IsoWhey Sports SwissWellness in May of that year[3] with the aim of competing for Australia at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Queensland.[10] In 2019 Freiberg won the Australian National Road Race Championships.[11]

Major results

Road
2012
2nd Overall Olympia's Tour
Oceania Road Championships
3rd Time trial
5th Road race
3rd Trofeo Internazionale Bastianelli
2017
6th Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies
2018
4th Ronde van Overijssel
6th Overall Tour of China II
2019
1st Road race, National Road Championships
3rd Time trial, Oceania Road Championships
9th Halle–Ingooigem

References
  1. "Michael Freiberg". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  2. "Cantwell and Rolfe headline V Australia after Pegasus collapse". VeloNews. 24 February 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  3. Price, Steve (11 May 2017). "Michael Freiberg signs with IsoWhey Sports SwissWellness". IsoWhey Sports SwissWellness. Archived from the original on 31 December 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  4. "ARA Pro Racing Sunshine Coast". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 29 February 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
  5. "ARA Pro Racing Sunshine Coast". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 30 January 2021. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  6. "2011 Track Cycling World Championships: Entries list". tissottiming.com. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  7. McDonald, Margie (4 April 2012). "Defending champ Michael Freiberg fails to make the team". theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  8. "Overlooked cyclist Michael Freiberg tweets frustration at O'Shea's result in omnium". theaustralian.com.au. 6 August 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  9. Tyrrell, Claire (3 December 2016). "Resistance is fertile as Freiberg reinvents the wheel". thewest.com.au. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  10. Tyrrell, Claire (15 June 2017). "Inventor Freiberg's Commonwealth goal". thewest.com.au. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  11. "Freiberg battles back to take elite men's Australian road race title". CyclingNews.com. 6 January 2019. Archived from the original on 6 January 2019.
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