Pierre-Luc Gagnon

Pierre-Luc Gagnon, commonly known by his initials PLG, is a Canadian professional skateboarder, born on 2 May 1980. He began skating in 1988 and entered his first competition in 1992. A frequent participant in the X Games, he has won nineteen medals, nine of them gold, in the Vert, Vert Double, Big Air and Vert Best Trick categories, and he has also won on the Dew Tour and at the Gravity Games and took the vert division of the Maloof Money Cup with technical flip tricks including a nollie heelflip indy 540. He won the Skateboard Vert at the AST China Invitational in Beijing in 2008, his third successive X Games gold and fifth overall in 2010, and a second Maloof Money Cup soon after. His sponsors have included Darkstar, Osiris, Monster Energy and Harley-Davidson, and he was in the cast of the VH1 series The X-Life.