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In 2003, despite being a year younger than many of his rivals, he was a world junior silver medallist at Komatsu, Japan in the Canadian canoe C-1 1000 m and also finished fourth in the C-1 500 m event.
In 2003, despite being a year younger than many of his rivals, he was a world junior silver medallist at Komatsu, Japan in the Canadian canoe C-1 1000 m and also finished fourth in the C-1 500 m event.
Competing against much more experienced canoers, he placed sixth in his initial heat of the C-1 500 m with a time of 2:00.238, qualifying for the semifinals. In the semifinal, he again placed sixth with a time of 1:53.385, and did not advance to the finals. In C-1 1000 m, Cheban finished sixth in his heat with a time of 4:00.637.
He was disqualified in the semifinal.
At the senior World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia they were the youngest of the C-2 1000 m finalists, placing ninth. In 2006 Cheban returned to the individual C-1 event and it proved to be his most successful season yet.
In July he took the C-1 500 m bronze medal at the 2006 European Championships in Račice, Czechoslovakian Republic – his first senior medal. The following month he went one better, winning the silver medal at the World Championships in Szeged.
Having won the 2004 European Junior Championships at both the C-1 500 m and C-1 1000 m in Poznań, Poland, Cheban was selected to represent Ukraine in both C-1 events at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In 2005, Cheban and partner Petro Kruh won the European under-23 C-2 1000 m title in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Cheban would win gold in the C-1 200 m event at the 2007 championships in Duisburg. He won a bronze medal in the C1 500m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. At the 2010 championships, Cheban won two medals with a silver in the C-1 4 x 200 m and a bronze in the C-1 200 m (tied with Canada"s Richard Dalton). While at the 2012 Olympics in London, he won the C-1 200m event, beating his opponent Ivan Shtyl" from Russia.
He is a member of the Yuzhne club
