Rune Glifberg

Rune Glifberg, nicknamed The Danish Destroyer, is a Danish professional skateboarder born in Copenhagen on 7 October 1974. He started skating at eleven, entered his first pro contest in France in 1990, turned professional as a vert skater in 1992 and moved to Costa Mesa, California, in 1995. He is one of three skaters to have competed at every X Games and holds 12 X Games medals. At 46 he became the oldest skateboarder to compete at the Olympic Games and the first man to ride a park event there, representing Denmark at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He rides for Flip Skateboards, is a part-owner of Pipeline Distribution, runs the Copenhagen event company RunEvent and co-founded the skatepark design firm Glifberg+Lykke in 2009. He is a playable character in the early Tony Hawk video games and lives in Copenhagen.