Michael Freiberg

Michael Freiberg
	Freiberg (centre) at the 2011 Track Cycling World Championships
Personal information
Full name	Michael Freiberg
Born	10 October 1990 (age 33); Hong Kong
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Team information
Current team	ARA Skip Capital
Disciplines	Track; Road;
Role	Rider
Rider type	Omnium (track)
Amateur teams
2009	Australian Institute of Sport
2013	Bianchi–Lotto–Nieuwe Hoop Tielen [fr]
Professional teams
2010	Team Jayco–Skins
2011	V Australia
2012	Team Jayco–AIS
2017–2018	IsoWhey Sports SwissWellness
2019–	Pro Racing Sunshine Coast
Major wins
	Single-day races and ClassicsNational Road Race Championships (2019)
Medal record
Representing Australia
Men's track cycling
Commonwealth Games

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

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]

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]