Per Welinder

Per Nils Welinder, born on 17 April 1962 in Taby, just outside Stockholm, is a Swedish entrepreneur and former professional skateboarder. During the 1980s he achieved international fame as a freestyle skater and was a leading member of the Powell-Peralta skate team known as the Bones Brigade. He had a number of influential video parts with Powell during the 1980s, a series of signature models and roles in several Hollywood movies, and he has the unique distinction of being the only person ever to have beaten Rodney Mullen in a professional skate contest. In the 1980s he and Mullen were competitors in freestyle skateboarding, and he regularly placed second to Mullen.