Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A Wasannin Olympics na bazara na 2000 a Sydney, Ashihmin ya sake fafatawa a wasanni hudu na iyo. Ya buga FINA B-misali na 23.55 (50 m freestyle) da 51.20 (100 m freestyle) daga Gasar Rasha ta Kasa a Moscow. A tseren mita 100 na 'yanci
, Ashihmin ya sanya na talatin da hudu a kan safiya prelims. Yin iyo a zagaye na shida, ya raba saiti na uku tare da Spyridon Bitsakis na Girka a daidai lokacin 51.28. Kwana biyu bayan haka, a tseren mita 50 na 'yanci, Ashihmin ya kalubalanci wasu masu iyo bakwai a zagaye na hudu, gami da babban dan tseren Kazakhstan Sergey Borisenko. Ya zo a matsayi na biyu kuma na arba'in da ɗaya a cikin duka tare da lokacin 23.53, yana bin Borisenko da ɗari bakwai na biyu (0.07). Ya kuma sanya na ashirin a matsayin memba na tawagar Kyrgyzstan a tseren tsere na 4 × 100 m (3:25.03), da na sha tara a tseren tsere na 4 × 100 m (3:46.70).