twelve years after competing in her first olympics, kiermayer qualified for her fourth german team, as a 40-year-old, at the 2008 summer olympics in beijing, by placing second in the trap shooting from the 2006 issf world cup series in cairo, egypt, posting her score of 89 hits. she finished only in eighth place by one point behind italy's deborah gelisio, for a total score of 65 targets.