Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1988, ya lashe gasar zakarun kasa a tseren mita 100 na 'yanci, ya kafa sabon rikodin Soviet kuma ya cancanci zuwa gasar Olympics. Ya yi gasa a wasannin Olympics na 1988 da 1992, ya lashe lambar azurfa a tseren tseren mita 4 × 100 a duka lokutan; a cikin 1988, ya kuma gama na biyar a tseren mita 100 na mutum. Bashkatov ya lashe lambobin yabo guda uku, ciki har da zinare daya, a gasar zakarun Turai ta 1989
da kuma gasar tseren ruwa ta duniya ta 1991.