The Resume

(September 20, 1987-July 8, 2020)
Born in Mansfield, Victoria, Australia
Snowboarder
Won two World Championships in snowboard cross (2011,2013)
Competed in three Winter Olympics (2010,2014,2018)
Drowned at age 32 while spearfishing

Why he might be annoying:

He said about his nickname, ‘Chumpy,’ ‘I probably should have grown out of it at some stage.’
He continued to receive funding from the Australian Olympics Committee despite training with his own coaches separately from the rest of the Australian team.
Other athletes complained about preferential treatment of Pullin, leading to a feud that was exposed to the public when he refused to congratulate fellow Australian Jarryd Hughes when Hughes won the silver medal in snowboard cross (2018).
He fronted a reggae band called Love Charli.

Why he might not be annoying:

He began skiing at age three and snowboarding at eight.
He was also an avid surfer.
He was the flagbearer for the Australian Olympic team at Sochi (2014).
He called snowboard cross ‘the most pure form of competition.’

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Athletes Who Think They are Musicians
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 77]
• I Became a Dad in 2021
• I Come from Oz
• I Died by Drowning
• I Died in 2020 (Ranked: 32)
• I Died in My 30s (Ranked: 32)
• I Fathered a Child Through In Vitro Fertilization
• I'm the Celebrity in a Celebrity Band
• Look at My Flag
• Posthumous New Dads
• Profiles 47001-47250 (Ranked: 47236)
• Snowboarders
• Surfers
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 20200708)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 165 Votes: 42.42% Annoying