Trefilov was elected head of the Handball Federation of the Krasnodar Territory

The 66-year-old coach was unanimously elected at the general meeting of the organization.

He replaced Stepan Sidorchuk, who resigned, the press service of the Russian Handball Federation reports.

“I really want our Krasnodar handball to return to the forefront.

There is a lot of work to be done.

The main task of my work now as the president of the federation is the development of handball, primarily in municipalities, as well as the revision of local personnel,” said Trefilov.

The Russian team led by Trefilov won gold medals at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

In 2019, he left the post of head coach of the team.

Earlier, the director of the Yekaterinburg Uralochka-NTMK, Valentina Ogienko, announced that the Cuban volleyball player Ailama Montalvo would leave the club after a racist scandal with the head coach of the Kaliningrad Lokomotiv Andrei Voronkov.