Michael Freiberg

Michael Freiberg
Personal information
Born (1990-10-10) 10 October 1990
Hong Kong[1]
Team information
Current team Bennelong SwissWellness Cycling Team
Discipline Track and road
Role Rider
Rider type Omnium
Amateur team(s)
2009 Australian Institute of Sport[1]
Professional team(s)
2010 Team Jayco–Skins[1]
2011 V Australia[2]
2012 Team Jayco–AIS[3]
2013 Bianchi-Lotto-Nieuwe Hoop Tielen[1]
2017- IsoWhey Sports SwissWellness[3]

Michael Freiberg (born 10 October 1990) is an Australian male track cyclist and road cyclist who has ridden for the national team. 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.[4] 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,[5] 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.[6] Freiberg subsequently put his racing career on hold in order to develop the AIRhub (Automated Integrated Resistance hub), 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, Mat Hayman, Adam Hansen, Esteban Chaves and Luke Durbridge.[7][8] 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.[8]


References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "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. 1 2 3 4 Price, Steve (11 May 2017). "Michael Freiberg signs with IsoWhey Sports SwissWellness". IsoWhey Sports SwissWellness. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "2011 Track Cycling World Championships: Entries list". tissottiming.com. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  5. ↑ McDonald, Margie (4 April 2012). "Defending champ Michael Freiberg fails to make the team". theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "Overlooked cyclist Michael Freiberg tweets frustration at O'Shea's result in omnium". theaustralian.com.au. 6 August 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  7. ↑ Tyrrell, Claire (3 December 2016). "Resistance is fertile as Freiberg reinvents the wheel". thewest.com.au. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  8. 1 2 Tyrrell, Claire (15 June 2017). "Inventor Freiberg's Commonwealth goal". thewest.com.au. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
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