Mikaela Shiffrin Wins in All 6 Alpine Disciplines

Proving her dominance in alpine sports, Mikaela Shiffrin has become the first athlete - male or woman - to win in all six alpine disciplines.

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This past Sunday Dec 2, defending overall champion Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) became the first athlete to win in all six individual disciplines on the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup circuit when she won her super-G at Lake Louise (CAN). She has described the run better than she hoped for. Shiffrin won first place in downhill at the same resort last year. Now the athlete has become the first athlete - male or female - to win all six individual World Cup races for the women’s slalom, parallel, giant slalom, super-G, downhill and alpine combined. This is a tremendous accomplishment, especially given that the young athlete is only 23 years old and has many years and seasons ahead!

Other high performing athletes include Ragnhild Mowinckel (NOR) who came in second and won Olympic Silver medals earlier this year at Pyeong Chang and Viktoria Rebensburg (GER) came in third.

Mikhaela Shiffrin is one of the most dedicated athletes in alpine sports, putting in a daily 2-hour workout. Whether your goal is to compete in your first or hundredth event, having a personal schedule that helps you become your best is important.

Previously, we featured lessons in leadership and doing your best from Olympic athletes such as Chloe Kim, Shaun White, Lindsey Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin and Jaimie Anderson.

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Our Elf Ski App

At Elf, we have been working on our own ski app that will be available for download for the next ski season Nov 2019 - April 2020. We are very excited about it as it harnesses our love of design, skiing and snowboarding and apps! Our ski app employs the latest features available in the Apple Watch for tracking ski and snowboard activity. The Elf ski app will be available for the iPhone and Apple Watch. We will have more information to share in the next year.

Apple News: Ski and Snowboard Activity Tracking Update on Apple Watch

New updates to Apple Watch 3 make it easier to track skiing and snowboarding activity with activity contributing to the Apple Watch Activity app and shared with the Health app with permissions enabled.

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We're excited by the new Apple updates to the Apple Watch 3 where we can track ski and snowboard activity. This helps us in the app we have been developing for the last few months of 2017 and into this year. 

Now we can track:

• Total vertical descent and horizontal distance

• Number of runs

• Average and maximum speeds

• Total time spent

• Calories burned

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This helps in tracking active calorie measurements directly to your Apple Watch Activity app. You can record runs and see your vertical descent and horizontal distance as well as speeds. You can also save your workout info to your Health app. In addition, you can use Siri to track runs with your voice.

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Our Ski App at Elf

Our new ski app at Elf is suitable for anyone who wants to have a great workout skiing or snowboarding, track performance and improve over time. We are fortunate to have a wide variety of beta testers, ranging from college athletes to Olympic skiers and snowboarders in a variety of disciplines. We are eager to share our app with you when it is completed and ready for you - beautifully!

Elf Ski App in Development

We're working on an app in house at Elf for the intermediate and advanced skier and snowboarder. We love to ski and snowboard at Elf. So do many of our clients and partners. Our app in development is for all those who love to wander and will be ready by the 2021-22 ski and snowboard season.