Elisabeth Maxwald (21 June 1967 - 9 July 2013) was an Austrian Paralympic skier.

She won four medals, two gold, a silver and a bronze.

[3] She competed at the 1988 Winter Paralympic Games, winning a gold medal in the giant slalom in 4:18.47 (second Cara Dunne who finished the race in 4:59.62 and third Susana Herrera in 5: 30.41).

She competed at the 1998 Winter Paralympic Games in Nagano.

She won gold in Nordic skiing, the 5 km classic technique race, ahead of the German athlete Verena Bentele and the Russian Lioubov Paninykh;[5] she won silver in the 3x2.5 km bracket (together with Gabriele Berghofer and Renata Hoenisch);[6] and she won bronze in the 5 km freestyle race.