The results of the election of the president of the Russian Basketball Federation were predictable, Andrei Kirilenko is the only candidate who knows where Russian basketball is going and where it will go, European champion and member of the RFB executive committee Sergei Bykov told .
On Friday, Kirilenko, 43, was re-elected as RFB chairman for a new four-year term. He won the election with 143 of the 144 votes cast by delegates.
— Congratulations to Andrei Kirilenko on his re-election as RFB president. The results were predictable, but they show that there is complete confidence in Andrey Gennadievich and his team. I am sure that Kirilenko, in the current conditions, is the only candidate who knows where Russian basketball is going and where it will go.
“I would very much like the work of the federation he heads to be appreciated by representatives of other sports. I would also like to see partnership programs develop in the region. I wish him success,” Bykov told .
A former basketball player, European champion and Olympic bronze medalist with the Russian national team, Kirilenko has been at the helm of the RBF since 2015.
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