[18][19] In the team sabre competition, Sharikov and the Russians defeated Hungary in the final (45–25) to win the gold medal.

[20] In the individual competition, Sharikov easily advanced to the final before losing 15–12 to teammate Stanislav Pozdnyakov; he was awarded the silver medal.

[19][20] In the individual sabre, Sharikov entered the Olympics as the # 3 seed (he was also ranked # 3 in the world), but was eliminated in the third round of the competition, 15–14.

The Russian lost a close match, 13–15 in the quarterfinal, to Italian Aldo Montano, who went on to win the gold.

He won the gold medal in the individual sabre over fellow Olympian, Vadim Gutzeit of Ukraine.

[35][14] While on vacation, he was driving an all-terrain vehicle on the Kaluga-Tarusa-Serpukhov highway south-west of Moscow as a part of a group of ATV drivers when he lost control of his vehicle and it changed into the opposite traffic lane and collided head-on with a car driving in the opposite direction.