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Reine Barkered (born 1982) is a big mountain skier from Duved, Sweden.
Barkered competed as an alpine ski racer before switching focus to freeride skiing in 2001. He did his first freeride competition, the Swedish big mountain championship in 2004, an event he won in 2006 also marking the last Swedish championship in the sport to date. He has competed in the Scandinavian big mountain championship (the world's oldest running freeride competition) since 2004.
In 2006 Barkered started competing on international level and in 2008 he qualified to the newly started Freeride World Tour. He ended up second overall in he's first year. He later earned the nickname 'the mayor of stomptown' and have a cliff named after him on Bec des Rosses, the mountain for the finals of the Freeride World Tour.
In 2012 Barkered won the overall Freeride World Tour claiming the world champion title and claimed the Transition Magazine award "Best Big Mountain Skier".
In 2017 he won his third Xtreme Verbier putting him in a group of handful of riders taking a win in this prestigious competition three times which, according to industry rumor give a lifetime wild card to the event.
In 2016 he married Freeride World Tour athlete Jackie Paaso.
Freeride World Tour results
= Season standings
=Race top results
Filmography
2009 RAD Films - Double UP
2010 Second Hands - Second best friends
2017 Winning run Xtreme Verbier