Raphael Freienstein

Raphael Freienstein

Raphael Freienstein (2016)
To person
Date of birth	April 8, 1991
nation	Germany
discipline	Road / mountain bike / cross-country
End of career	2017
Societies)
2004–2008 2009 2010–2011 2014	RV 1906 Bann RSC Felsenland Athletics Club 1892 Weinheim FV Olympia Ramstein
Last updated: September 30, 2018

Raphael Freienstein (born April 8, 1991 in Marburg ) is a German racing cyclist .

Career

Raphael Freienstein has been active as a cyclist since 2004, on the road , mountain bike and in cyclo-cross races . From 2012 he drove for various Continental teams with breaks . At the German road championships in 2012 , he finished ninth in the elite road race .

In 2016 Freienstein moved to Team Kuota . There he achieved his greatest international success in May 2016 when he won the second stage of the Flèche du Sud . In the overall ranking of the tour, he finally came in second.

In 2017 he won two German championship titles: in the team time trial of the German road championships and in the hill climb . He also won the overall ranking of the cycling Bundesliga in 2017 . He then ended his international career as an active player because he did not succeed in getting a contract with a WorldTeam or Professional Continental Team .

Freienstein then moved to Australia to complete his degree in International Management . In Victoria , he joined parallel to studying regional team Inform-Make Racing on for which he most significant Australian racing series National Road Series won and thus a starting place at UCI World Tour -race Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race secured.

Raphael Freienstein is the son of the former racing cyclist and current trainer Thomas Freienstein .

successes

2016

• a stage of the Flèche du Sud

2017

• German champion - mountain
• German champion - team time trial
• Overall ranking Rad-Bundesliga

Teams

• 2012 Team Heizomat
• 2013 Team Heizomat
• 2015 Charter Mason Giant Racing Team
• 2016 Team Kuota Lotto
• 2017 Team Lotto – Kern House

Web links

Commons : Raphael Freienstein  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Raphael Freienstein in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Raphael Freienstein in the rad-net.de database
• Raphael Freienstein in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Freienstein second at Flèche du Sud. In: rad-net.de. May 8, 2016, Retrieved May 9, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Freienstein wins the Rad-Bundesliga before Huppertz tied on points. In: radsport-news.com. September 9, 2017. Retrieved September 10, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Bundesliga overall winner Freienstein ends career. In: radsport-news.com. November 11, 2017. Retrieved November 10, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Freienstein gives teammates a start in the Cadel Evans Race. In: radsport-news.com. January 8, 2019, accessed January 8, 2019 .