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Chumpy's season takes shape

15/12/2012

 
Australia’s Alex “Chumpy” Pullin went within centremetres of snatching victory today in a photo finish with American dual Olympic gold medallist Seth Wescott in the snowboard cross World Cup in Telluride, USA.

As the only snowboard cross athlete to make both finals contested this season, the Australian Institute of Sport athlete jumps to number two in the world, just 20 points behind the leader, Italian Omar Visintin.

Given the nightmare lead up to today’s World Cup, Pullin showed enormous maturity and grit to power his way into second place, ahead of Canadian Christopher Robanske in third.

It was not until 3am on race day that his equipment arrived at Telluride, a result of an airline mishap.

Throughout the week Pullin trained on borrowed boots and bindings and had to deal with the mental strain of working out how to cope with the possibility of racing with untried equipment that was not entirely suited to his needs.

But despite the difficult preparation, Pullin’s performance in Telluride was excellent – a fast qualifying and wins in each of his three knock out races leading into the final.

As well as praising Pullin’s photo finish in the final, AIS snowboard head coach Ben Wordsworth was thrilled by the 25-year-old Victorian’s quarter final and semi-final, when he defeated Wescott in both races and also former World Champion Markus Schairer in the semi.

Coming from third place in the semi, Pullin mounted a charge in the closing stages of the race to maneuvre his way to the lead.

“Chumpy really stepped up today and showed real professionalism,” Wordsworth said.

“The mental strain that he faced when the bags went missing for four days was something he dealt with but it was difficult.

“Today was a great result and now we have our eyes firmly on the World Championships. That’s the one we want. ”

Pullin now heads home to Australia for Christmas before going back to Canada to continue his preparation for his World Championship defence, a title he won in 2011, at the Canadian resort of Stoneham from January 17 to 27.

Pullin’s fellow snowboard cross squad members and NSW Institute of Sport scholarship holders, Andy Fischer, Cam Bolton and Jarryd Hughes also impressed during qualifying, posting times in the top 32.

However, each of the three failed to advance past the first knock out final with Hughes in 23rd place, Fischer in 24th and Bolton in 29th.

In the women’s draw Australia’s Belle Brockhoff was unable to continue her medal winning form from a week earlier, missing the quarter final cut to finish 22nd.

Pullin & Brockhoff both make World Cup final, Brockhoff wins first female medal

9/12/2012

 
Nineteen-year-old NSW Institute of Sport athlete Belle Brockhoff became the first Australian woman to win a snowboard cross World Cup medal when she finished third in Montafon, Austria on Sunday.

Brockhoff finished behind the winning Canadian Dominique Maltais and Italian Raffaella Brutto. The result was a bolt from the blue with just five World Cup starts to her record.

Brockhoff plans to compete in her first full World Cup season over the next few months including the World Championships in Canada during January and the Olympic Test event in Sochi, Russia, during February.

Twenty four hours earlier, AIS rider Alex “Chumpy” Pullin signaled a return to near his best form when he qualified as sixth fastest and reached the snowboard cross final where he finished fourth after dominating his first three head to head races.

It was an encouraging start to the season for the Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder who demonstrated that he will again be fast during the 2012/13 season, where he hopes to defend the World Championship title he won in 2011.

Competing in difficult conditions with heavy snow falling, Pullin set the sixth fastest time in qualifying. He then he won his opening head-to-head race, then the quarterfinal and semifinal to make it into the final of four.

“It was such a fun first World Cup in Montafon,” Pullin said. “I’m really happy to kick start the season with a final and can't wait for more.”

The event was won by Italy’s Omar Visintin who celebrated his career's first World Cup, edging out local hero, Austrian Markus Schairer, with USA rider Nick Baumgartner third.

NSWIS athlete Cameron Bolton made it through the qualifying as second fastest to the round of 32, but finished third in his heat and placed 19th overall, his best World Cup result to date. Teammates Daniel Morrissy did not get past the qualification round in 61st place while Jarryd Hughes was injured, and did not start.

The AIS & NSWIS Snowboard Cross athletes now travel to North America for a World Cup in Telluride, Colorado next weekend.

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