Background
Schaffelhuber was born in Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany. She was born with an incomplete spinal cord and as a result has paraplegia and uses a wheelchair.
Schaffelhuber was born in Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany. She was born with an incomplete spinal cord and as a result has paraplegia and uses a wheelchair.
She also finished fourth in two events, the super combined and the slalom, and seventh in the giant slalom.
She began monoskiing at age five and at age fourteen received a scholarship to join a national junior skiing programme. Schaffelhuber competes in the LW10 para-alpine skiing classification using a sitting mono-ski and outriggers. She was selected for the German team at the 2010 Winter Paralympics held in Vancouver, Canada where she competed in four events.
During the closing ceremony of the Games she carried the German flag.
She skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships, held in Sestriere, Italy. She competed in her second Paralympics at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
She claimed her first Paralympic gold medal by winning the sitting downhill in a time of 1 minute 35.55 seconds. Following an appeal Schaffelhuber was reinstated and awarded her third gold medal of the Games with Forster winning the silver medal.
She became the second athlete to sweep the alpine skiing events after Lauren Woolstencroft in 2010.
At the 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships held in Louisiana Molina, Spain, she successfully defended her title in the slalom, winning the gold medal in a time of 2 minutes 26.18 seconds.