At the 1986 Commonwealth Games he won the individual pursuit event.
The next year, at his third Winter Olympics appearance, he won the gold medal in the pursuit event.
Initially on 16 February they were scheduled to be pursuit events, but were changed to interval start events.
The new arrivals are two pursuit events: a 10-kilometer race for women and a 12 1/2-kilometer race for men.
Although delivering mostly rather unusual results in the races before the Christmas break, he still placed second in both of the pursuit events.
The men's individual pursuit event in cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics consisted of matches between two cyclists.
The 4000m individual pursuit event was introduced at these Games.
In the pursuit event, Ustygov became 23rd, 3 minutes and 37 seconds behind Prokunin.
Two days later, he achieved the same result in the pursuit event, but now missing four targets.
In the pursuit event he received an injury on his left forearm, finishing 31th.