SWE16 EURO Champ Guide LR
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EKATERINA ILINA<br />
centre back<br />
• One of the best playmakers around and the big revelation of the 2015/16 season<br />
• In 2008 became the Junior World <strong>Champ</strong>ion with Russia in Bratislava<br />
• Was the team’s top scorer in <strong>EURO</strong> qualification with 26 goals<br />
• Moved to Rostov-Don in 2014 from Lada Toliatti just after winning the EHF Cup<br />
• Won her first domestic trophies later than international ones, having become<br />
Russian champion and Supercup winner with Rostov in 2015<br />
OG: G 2016<br />
EC trophies: EHF Cup 2014<br />
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ANNA VYAKHIREVA<br />
right wing<br />
• Has had great success representing Russia at under-age <strong>EURO</strong>s and WCh where she has won<br />
copious amounts of all-star and MVP awards<br />
• Plays her club handball in Rostov-Don; won the Russian league in the 2015/16 season with<br />
Astrakhanochka & was elected the MVP and the best right back<br />
• Comes from a handball family; her father Viktor is a well-known coach and her elder sister<br />
Polina Kuznetsova plays for Kuban Krasnodar and for the Russian national team<br />
• Voted MVP at Rio 2016<br />
WCh: G 2013<br />
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KSENIA MAKEEVA<br />
line player<br />
• Moving out of Petrova’s shadow will likely take on a much more central role in Sweden<br />
• Is the second tallest member of the squad coming in at 185cm<br />
• No stranger to winning titles having won domestic titles in Romania and Russia along with<br />
international and YAC ones with the Russian NT<br />
• Plays her club handball with CL side Rostov-Don; could earn her 100th cap if Russia make<br />
it to the final<br />
WCh: G 2009<br />
EC trophies: EHF Cup: 2008<br />
EVGENY TREFILOV<br />
coach<br />
• Started coaching in 1984 working mostly with men’s teams; as assistant to the men’s NT he won<br />
gold at the WCh 1997<br />
• In 1999 Trefilov was hired at head coach of the women’s NT; resigned again in 2009 after some<br />
poor results, but was back in charge again in 2013<br />
• After a poor <strong>EURO</strong> 2014 (finishing 14 th ), form improved for the WCh 2015 (finishing 5 th ) from<br />
there Trefilov led the Russian ladies to gold at Rio 2016<br />
• Voted best women’s handball team coach by the IHF in 2009<br />
OG: G 2016 S 2008; <strong>EURO</strong>: S 2006; WCh: G 1997 (men), 2001, 2005, 2007, 2009;<br />
EC trophies: CL: 2008; EHF Cup: 2007, 2012; Cup Winners’ Cup: 2002<br />
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