Career
He also competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a three-time participant at the World Championships in Athletics (1991, 1993 and 1995). As a youth, Freigang ran long-distance races.
As a 16-year-old he took part in 15 km runs.
In 1986 he was fourth at the World Junior Championships in the 10,000 meter run and in the 20 km run. He ran his first marathon in 1987 with a time of 2 hours 14 minister
34 secretary He sporting career was in question in 1989 after a bad motorcycle accident, but in 1990 he was once again one of the top German runners and took place in the September sporting event in Berlin and recorded a time of 28:05 in the 10,000, a result that was the best by a German that year.
At the 1992 Olympic games he planned to run the 10,000 meters, but he failed to qualify for the German team in that event. But with a marathon time of 2 hours 12 minutes in Palermo, December 1991, he was still able to join the Olympic team
The marathon at the games came to a dramatic education He reached the stadium in third place, but was overtaken by Takeyuji Nakayama of Japan.
Even so he was able to overtake Nakayama to take the bronze.
After his he had no further important results in international competitions. Freigang represented first LC Cottbus and trained with Dieter Bittermann. In 2002 he has represented South Carolina DHfK Leipzig and has trained under Karl-Heinz Baumback and Doctor Thomas Prochnow.
In 2005 he retired from sport.
During his career he was 1.76 meters tall and weighed 65 kilograms.