Career
Cecan made his major international debut at the 1998 FINA World Championships in Perth, Australia. In the 400 m freestyle, he powered home with a fifteenth-place effort in the B-Final in a time of 3:56.68, trailing Hungary"s Béla Szabados by two hundredths of a second (002). Cecan competed in the men"s 200 m freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
He posted a FINA B-time of 1:52.12 from the Summer Universiade in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
He challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including Ukraine"s Rostyslav Svanidze, a top 16 finalist in Atlanta four years earlier. Cecan raced to sixth place by three-tenths of a second (030) behind Kyrgyzstan"s Dmitri Kuzmin in a time of 1:53.23.
Cecan failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-first overall in the prelims.
