Australia’s snowboard cross World Champion and AIS scholarship athlete, Alex “Chumpy” Pullin had a very positive day of World Cup racing and finished a very creditable fifth in the World Cup team event with NSWIS team mate Cam Bolton.

Competing in Telluride, Colarado, in the United States, the Australians finished behind event winners French duo Pierre Vaultier and Xavier De Le Rue, with Americans Nick Baumgartner and Jonathan Cheever in second while third was Norway’s Joachim Havikhagen and Stian Sivertzen.

Telluride hosted the only World Cup snowboard cross team event for the season and provided some much needed competitive racing for Pullin in his quest to defend the World Cup title he captured last season. Bolton who has only a handful of World Cup starts to date, was pleased with another racing opportunity and and the chance to team together with the current World Champion.

The team format involves two riders, with the second leaving the start gate as the first athlete crosses the finish line

Pullin was glad to finish the Telluride weekend on a positive note after failing to advance beyond the individual event’s first round heat, after difficult conditions during the second round of the qualification competition.