Elisabeth Maier

Too old at 14 to start luge, and to young to start bobsleigh, Vathje was encouraged to take up skeleton at 14 years of age after her father, Jeff, was on a flight with the Canadian luge squad. She quickly turned heads around the world, Elisabeth was fast tracked on the pathway to the podium. 

After winning a silver medal at the 2014 World Junior Championships, Elisabeth proved she was ready to carry the torch for Canada’s next generation of skeleton athletes after shocking the world by winning one gold, three silver and one bronze medal in her first year on the World Cup circuit during the 2014-15 campaign.

Elisabeth blasted onto the World Cup scene in 2014-15 with a silver medal in her first race in Lake Placid. She followed that up by winning on her home track in Calgary. Her rookie season was capped off with an impressive bronze-medal finish at the World Championships in Winterberg, Germany. 

She accomplished the first step of her Olympic dream by representing Canada at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, just weeks after finishing third in the Overall World Cup skeleton standings.

After taking a year off to welcome baby Hendrix into the world with her husband, and Austrian bobsleigh pilot Ben Maier, Elisabeth is back on track – sliding for all of the mamas – and ready to charge towards Beijing 2022.

Outside of sport, enjoys mentoring junior high school girls and plays a little ukulélé. She married Austrian bobsleigh pilot Benjamin Maier in Hawaii following the 2018 Olympics.

Career Highlights

	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Other
2019 – World Cup, Calgary, CAN				4th
2019 – World Cup, Igls, AUT				6th
2018 – World Cup, Sigulda, LAT
2018 – Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang, KOR				9th
2018 – World Cup, St. Moritz, SUI
2018 – World Cup, Igls, AUT
2017 – World Cup, Winterberg, GER
2017 – World Cup, Park City, USA				6th
2017 – World Cup, Lake Placid, USA
2017 – World Championships, Konigssee, GER				6th
2017 – World Cup, Pyeongchang, KOR				6th
2017 – World Cup, Igls, AUT				5th
2017 – World Cup, St. Moritz, SUI				4th
2017 – World Cup, Winterberg, GER
2016 – World Cup, Whistler, CAN
2016 – World Championships, Igls, AUT				6th
2014 – World Cup, Lake Placid, USA
2014 – World Cup, Calgary, CAN
2015 – World Cup, St. Moritz, SUI
2015 – World Cup, Igls, AUT
2015 – World Championships, Winterberg, GER
2014 – Junior World Championships, Winterberg, GER
2014 – Europa Cup, Konigssee, GER

Olympic Winter Games Results

World Championship Results

World Cup Results

Intercontinental Cup Results