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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.
He is a member of the Yuzhne club