Michael Freiberg (born 10 October 1990) is an Australian track and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team ARA Skip Capital.[5]
 Freiberg (centre) at the 2011 Track Cycling World Championships | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Michael Freiberg | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 October 1990 Hong Kong[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||
| Current team | ARA Skip Capital | ||||||||||||||
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| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Omnium (track) | ||||||||||||||
| Amateur teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Australian Institute of Sport[1] | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Bianchi–Lotto–Nieuwe Hoop Tielen[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Team Jayco–Skins[1] | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | V Australia[2] | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Team Jayco–AIS[3] | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | IsoWhey Sports SwissWellness[3] | ||||||||||||||
| 2019– | Pro Racing Sunshine Coast[4] | ||||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||||
| Single-day races and Classics | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editTrack career
editAt 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
editFreiberg 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
editFreiberg 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
editRoad
edit- 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
- 2022
- 3rd
Time trial, Oceania Road Championships
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Michael Freiberg". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
- ^ "Cantwell and Rolfe headline V Australia after Pegasus collapse". VeloNews. 24 February 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ "ARA Pro Racing Sunshine Coast". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 29 February 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
- ^ "ARA Pro Racing Sunshine Coast". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 30 January 2021. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- ^ "2011 Track Cycling World Championships: Entries list". tissottiming.com. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ McDonald, Margie (4 April 2012). "Defending champ Michael Freiberg fails to make the team". theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
- ^ "Overlooked cyclist Michael Freiberg tweets frustration at O'Shea's result in omnium". theaustralian.com.au. 6 August 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
- ^ Tyrrell, Claire (3 December 2016). "Resistance is fertile as Freiberg reinvents the wheel". thewest.com.au. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
- ^ a b Tyrrell, Claire (15 June 2017). "Inventor Freiberg's Commonwealth goal". thewest.com.au. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
- ^ "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.
External links
edit- Michael Freiberg at ProCyclingStats
- Michael Freiberg at Cycling Archives (archived)
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