RIP Alex Pullin—Two-Time World Champion Australian Snowboarder Dies off Gold Coast
Thirty two year old Australian snowboarder Alex Pullin passed away Wednesday after being found unresponsive off a beach on Queensland’s Gold Coast. According to reporting from the BBC, a snorkeler spotted Pullin unconscious underwater on an artificial reef where Pullin was believed to have been freediving and spearfishing.
Pullin, aka Chumpy, is a two-time boardercross world champion and a three-time olympic competitor. He was Australia’s flag bearer at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi. Pullin won the overall snowboard cross title in both the 2010-2011 and 2012-2013 FIS Snowboard World Cups, and also took home snowboard cross gold at the 2011 and 2013 FIS Snowboarding World Championships. He is the first Australian to do so. In 2016 he won a silver medal in boardercross at the 2016 X Games in Aspen, Colorado.
Australian snowboarder Scotty James and American Hagen Kearney posted the following tributes to their Instagram pages:
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