Double delight for Glifberg

Costa Mesa’s Rune Glifberg and partner Mike Crum from Long Beach

scored 89.33 points to place second in the skateboard vert doubles

final Saturday in X Games IX at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Carlsbad residents Bucky Lasek and Bob Burnquinst earned 96.67

points to claim first in the event final, which requires teams

complete two 30-45-second runs. Judges grade on originality, flow,

use of ramp, combination tricks, interaction between partners and

amplitude. Skaters picked their partners and create lines together.

Glifberg scored 92.33 points to take third place in the skateboard

vert final completed late Friday night.

Also competing in the skateboard vert final was Costa Mesa

resident Chris Gentry. He placed ninth with 83.67 points.

Each of the 10 athletes in the final took three 45-second runs

with the best of three scores counting in the standings.

Also Saturday, Costa Mesa resident Fabiola da Silva, who won the

women’s aggressive in-line park title Thursday, scored 70.50 points

to place 12th in the preliminary round of the aggressive in-line vert

event, but missed qualifying for the finals by half a point. The top

10 competitors advanced to today’s final. Each skater performs tricks

in a halfpipe.

Glifberg is scheduled to compete in the skateboard vert best trick

final at 11:30 a.m. today at Staples Center while Costa Mesa’s Rodil

de Araujo will vie for the title in the skateboard park final at 1

p.m.