Outside his Olympic career, Vasiliev has won a total of seven medals in a major international competition, spanning the ISSF World Cup series, the European Championships and the World Championships.

[1] Currently residing in Brest, Belarus, Vasiliev trains under his longtime coach Gennadiy Sotskov for the shooting team at Dynamo.

There, he shot brilliantly a total of 667.0 to tie for fourth position with Hungary's Jószef Sike in the inaugural 10 m running target final, falling short of an Olympic bronze by just a four-point margin.

[4] He managed to get a minimum qualifying standard of 584 to join with fellow marksman Andrei Kazak and secure an Olympic berth for Belarus in his pet event, following a top finish at the European Championships a year earlier in Gothenburg, Sweden.

[1][5] Vasiliev marked a steady 287 in the slow-target portion and 282 in the fast-moving round to accumulate a total score of 569 points, shutting him out of the final to thirteenth in a 19-shooter field.