At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Pieper finished his ranking round with a total of 648 points, which gave him the 45th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Oleksandr Serdyuk in the first round.
This gave him the 20th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Jens Pieper in the first round, beating the German 107-105.
Oleksandr Turchynov | Oleksandr Tkachenko | Oleksandr Moroz | Oleksandr Usyk | Oleksandr Serdyuk | Oleksandr Pyschur | Oleksandr Oles | Oleksandr Konysky | Oleksandr Horshkov |