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The two-time world snowboarding champion, 32, has died after he was pulled unconscious from the water at Palm Beach
The Australian Olympian Alex “Chumpy” Pullin has drowned on the Gold Coast.
Police said the 32-year-old died after being pulled from the surf at Palm Beach on the Gold Coast. Pullin, who had been spearfishing, was dragged unconscious from the water about 10.40am on Wednesday, police said.
Pullin, a two-time world snowboarding champion, was the Australian flag-bearer at the 2014 Sochi winter Olympics. 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.