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Rune Glifberg

Rune Glifberg
Personal information
Nickname	The Danish Destroyer
Nationality	Danish
Born	(1974-10-07) 7 October 1974 (age 50) Copenhagen, Denmark
Occupation(s)	Professional skateboarder, architect
Height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight	160 lb (73 kg)
Sport
Country	Denmark
Sport	Skateboarding
Position	Regular-footed
Rank	32nd (Park)
Event(s)	Park, vert and vert doubles
Turned pro	1992
Former partner	Mike Crum
Achievements and titles
National finals	Danish Skateboarding Championship 2021: Men's park – Gold Danish Skateboarding Championship 2019: Men's park – Bronze
Medal record Men's skateboarding Representing  Denmark X Games 2008 Los Angeles Park 2009 Los Angeles Park 1997 San Diego Vert 2003 Los Angeles Vert doubles 2013 Foz do Iguacu Park 1995 Newport Vert 1999 San Diego Vert doubles 2002 Philadelphia Vert 2002 Philadelphia Vert doubles 2003 Los Angeles Vert 2004 Los Angeles Vert 2012 Los Angeles Park

Rune Glifberg (born 7 October 1974), nicknamed "The Danish Destroyer," is a Danish professional skateboarder. Glifberg is one of three skaters to have competed at every X Games. He has a total of 12 X Games medals. At 46, he became the oldest skateboarder to ever compete in the Olympic Games and the first male skateboarder to ever compete in a park event in the Olympic Games when he represented Denmark in the men's park event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Early life

Rune Glifberg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and began skating at the age of 11 years after a friend brought a skateboard as a gift, which he had bought in the US. He entered his first pro contest in France in 1990, and turned pro in 1992. Rune Glifberg moved from Denmark to Costa Mesa, California after he finished secondary school in 1995.

Professional skateboarding

In the early 1990s, Glifberg turned professional as a vert skater and relocated to the United States. Glifberg signed a contract with Flip Skateboards and, as of July 2021, he remains a member of the company's professional team.

Glifberg was sponsored by shoe company Etnies at around the same time as he joined Flip and his second signature shoe was called the Template:Lang-da, meaning "defend" or "defense" in Danish. As of September 2012, Glifberg has released a line of signature shoes with Converse that consists of "The Allston" and the "Rune Pro Mid" models.

Glifberg is a playable character in the first five games of the Tony Hawk series of video games that consists of the four Pro Skater games and Tony Hawk's Underground.

Company owner

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Glifberg is a part-owner of Pipeline Distribution and runs a Copenhagen-based event company "RunEvent". RunEvent was the organizer of 2010's "Burning of the Witch" skateboard contest at Amager Strandpark in Copenhagen. Burning of the Witch was jointly sponsored by Volcom, one of Glifberg's sponsors, and Thrasher Magazine. RunEvent organized Glifberg's 25th skateboarding anniversary that was held at Fælledparken in Copenhagen during the summer of 2011.

In 2009, Glifberg and architect Ebbe Lykke founded the skatepark design firm Glifberg+Lykke in Copenhagen. The duo have since taken the lead on a number of projects in Europe, including the Streetdome in Haderslev, Denmark; Oslo Skatehalll in Oslo, Norway; Skatepark Eller in Düsseldorf, Germany; and the Urban Sport Zone in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

• Streetdome in Haderslev

Personal life

Glifberg resided in the United States for seventeen years, living for a period in the Leucadia district of Encinitas, California. He moved back to Denmark in the early 2010s and, as of 2021, is based in Copenhagen.

Contest history

Sponsors

Active sponsors as of July 2021:

• Flip Skateboards
• Hazard Wheels
• Indy
• Monster Energy
• Nike SB
• Pro-Tec
• Volcom

Former sponsors

• Converse
• MOB Griptape
• Oakley
• Ricta

References

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11. Fontrodona, Marc (20 January 2017). "Marvel at the suspended bowl of Oslo Skatehall". Red Bull. Retrieved 30 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
12. "Skatepark Eller". Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf (in German). Retrieved 30 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
13. "The largest skate park in the Netherlands opens today". TheMayor.EU. 18 June 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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15. "Athletes: GLIFBERG Rune (Skateboarding)". Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Olympics.com. Retrieved 30 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
16. ^ Rune Glifberg SKATEBOARDER. "Rune Glifberg Profile - Competition History - ESPN". Espn.go.com. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
17. Meronek, Rob. "Profiles and Bios: Rune Glifberg from Copenhagen DEN". The Boardr. Retrieved 30 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
18. Archived April 2, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Rune Glifberg at Olympedia (archive)
• Rune Glifberg at the X Games (archived)
• Rune Glifberg at The Boardr

• 1974 births
• Living people
• Danish skateboarders
• X Games athletes
• Skateboarders at the 2020 Summer Olympics
• Olympic skateboarders of Denmark
• Danish expatriate sportspeople in the United States
• Sportspeople from Copenhagen