Susanne Kiermayer

{{Short description|German sport shooter (born 1968)}}

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| birth_place = Zwiesel, Bavaria, West Germany

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| sport = Shooting

| event = Trap, double trap

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| club = WTC Bayerwald

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| coach = Willi Metelmann

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{{MedalSport | Women's shooting}}

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{{MedalSilver | 1996 Atlanta | Double trap }}

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{{MedalSilver | 1998 Barcelona | Trap }}

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Susanne Kiermayer (born 22 July 1968 in Zwiesel, Bavaria) is a retired German sport shooter.{{cite sports-reference|title = Susanne Kiermayer|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ki/susanne-kiermayer-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417185751/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ki/susanne-kiermayer-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 17 April 2020|access-date = 27 January 2013}} Kiermayer had won a total of nine medals (one gold, four silver, and four bronze) for both trap and double trap shooting at the ISSF World Cup series. She also captured a silver medal in the same discipline at the 1998 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Barcelona, Spain, striking a total of 91 clay pigeons.{{cite web|title=ISSF Profile – Susanne Kiermayer|url=http://www.issf-sports.org/athletes/athlete.ashx?personissfid=SHGERW2207196801|publisher=ISSF|accessdate=27 January 2013}} Kiermayer is currently a vice-president of the German Shooting Federation ({{langx|de|Deutscher Schützenbund}}).{{cite news|title=Gesamtaktivensprecherin Susanne Kiermayer neue Vizepräsidentin|trans-title=Active spokeswoman Susanne Kiermayer is the new vice president|language=German|url=http://www.dsb.de/aktuelles/meldung/2848-Stefanie-Thurmann-holt-ueberraschend-Bronze/|publisher=German Shooting and Archery Federation|date=2 May 2009|accessdate=27 January 2013}}

Kiermayer emerged as one of Germany's most prominent shooters in its Olympic history. She won the silver medal in the inaugural women's double trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States by two points behind winner Kim Rhode of the United States, with a total score of 139 targets (105 in the preliminary rounds and 34 in the final) and a bonus of two from a shoot-off (against Australia's Deserie Huddleston).{{cite news|title=U.S.' Rhode Gets Gold In Women's Double Trap|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1996-07-24/sports/9607240077_1_kim-rhode-eric-morel-world-shotgun-championships|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724211909/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1996-07-24/sports/9607240077_1_kim-rhode-eric-morel-world-shotgun-championships|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 24, 2015|publisher=Sun Sentinel|date=24 June 1996|accessdate=27 January 2013}} Kiermayer achieved a fifth-place finish each in the women's trap at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, accumulating scores of 86 and 79 clay pigeons, respectively. She also competed in the women's double trap at these Olympic games, but she neither reached the final round, nor claimed an Olympic medal.

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.{{cite news|title=Susanne Kiermayer gewinnt Weltcup-Silber und Quotenplatz|trans-title=Susanne Kiermayer wins World Cup silver and quota place|language=German|url=http://www.dsb.de/aktuelles/meldung/1600-Susanne-Kiermayer-gewinnt-Weltcup-Silber-und-Quotenplatz/|publisher=German Shooting and Archery Federation|date=24 May 2006|accessdate=27 January 2013}} She finished only in eighth place by one point behind Italy's Deborah Gelisio, for a total score of 65 targets.{{cite web|title=Women's Trap Qualification|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc=SHW401901/index.html|publisher=NBC Olympics|access-date=27 January 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816051602/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSHW401901/index.html|archive-date=16 August 2012|df=}}