Iurii Cheban

Yuriy Volodymyrovych Cheban (Ukrainian: Юрій Володимирович Чебан; born 5 July 1986 in Odesa, Ukraine) is a retired Ukrainian sprint canoeist. He is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion in C-1 200 metres.

Iurii Cheban
Cheban in 2012
Personal information
Born5 July 1986 (1986-07-05) (age 37)
Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing  Ukraine
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2012 LondonC-1 200 m
Gold medal – first place2016 Rio de JaneiroC-1 200 m
Bronze medal – third place2008 BeijingC-1 500 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2007 DuisburgC-1 200 m
Gold medal – first place2014 MoscowC-1 200 m
Silver medal – second place2006 SzegedC-1 500 m
Silver medal – second place2010 PoznańC-1 4x200 m
Silver medal – second place2014 MoscowC-1 4x200 m
Bronze medal – third place2010 PoznańC-1 200 m
European Championships
Silver medal – second place2010 TrasonaC-1 200 m
Bronze medal – third place2006 RačiceC-1 500 m
Bronze medal – third place2007 PontevedraC-1 200 m
Bronze medal – third place2008 MilanC-1 500 m
Bronze medal – third place2011 BelgradeC-1 200 m

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 canoeists, 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 × 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 succeeded in defending his title four years later at the 2016 Olympics, defeating his former teammate, Valentin Demyanenko, who competed for Azerbaijan.

References
  • ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
  • ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
  • Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Iurii Cheban". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
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