Raymond van Barneveld

Raymond van Barneveld born 20 April 1967 is a Dutch professional darts player Nicknamed Barney although originally known as The Man he is one of the most successful darts players in history Van Barneveld is a fivetime World Darts Champion fourtime BDO and onetime PDC a twotime UK Open Champion and a former winner of the Las Vegas Desert Classic the Grand Slam of Darts and the Premier League He is also a twicewinner of the World Masters and the World Darts Trophy and a threetime winner of the International Darts League and the WDF World Cup Singles event Van Barneveld won the PDC World Cup of Darts four times once with Co Stompé and three times with Michael van Gerwen and the WDF World Cup Pairs once with Vincent van der Voort all whilst representing the Netherlands He also won the PDC World Pairs with Roland Scholten In January 2009 in the quarterfinals of the 2009 PDC World Darts Championship Van Barneveld became the first player in professional darts to hit a nine darter at the PDC World Darts Championship From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia