Yuriy Cheban

Yuriy Cheban

Medal record
Competitor for  Ukraine
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
	2012 London	C-1 200 m
	2008 Beijing	C-1 500 m
World Championships
	2007 Duisburg	C-1 200 m
	2014 Moscow	C-1 200 m
	2006 Szeged	C-1 500 m
	2010 Poznań	C-1 4x200 m
	2014 Moscow	C-1 4x200 m
	2010 Poznań	C-1 200 m
European Championships
	2010 Trasona	C-1 200 m
	2006 Račice	C-1 500 m
	2007 Pontevedra	C-1 200 m
	2008 Milan	C-1 500 m
	2011 Belgrade	C-1 200 m

Yuriy Cheban (Ukrainian: Юрій Чебан) (born 5 July 1986 in Odesa, Ukraine) is an Olympic gold medalist Ukrainian sprint canoer who has been competing since 2003.

Career

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. 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.

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.

In 2005, Cheban and partner Petro Kruh won the European under-23 C-2 1000 m title in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. 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, Czech Republic – his first senior medal. The following month he went one better, winning the silver medal at the World Championships in Szeged. 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. He is a member of the Yuzhne club.

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.

References

Media related to Category:Yuriy Cheban at Wikimedia Commons

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007.
• Sports-reference.com profile