Michael Freiberg

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Michael Freiberg
Podium Omnium Bahn-WM 2011.jpg
Freiberg (centre) at the 2011 Track Cycling World Championships
Personal information
Full nameMichael Freiberg
Born (1990-10-10) 10 October 1990 (age 33)
Hong Kong [1]
Height1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight82 kg (181 lb)
Team information
Current team ARA Skip Capital
Disciplines
RoleRider
Rider typeOmnium (track)
Amateur teams
2009 Australian Institute of Sport [1]
2013 Bianchi–Lotto–Nieuwe Hoop Tielen  [ fr ] [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
National Road Race Championships (2019)
Medal record
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Men's track cycling
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2010 Delhi Scratch race

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

Contents

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 MaillotAustralia.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
3rd Time trial, Oceania Road Championships
9th Halle–Ingooigem
2022
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Time trial, Oceania Road Championships

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