See main article: FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships are organized by the International Ski Federation (FIS).
The first world championships in alpine skiing were held in 1931. During the 1930s, the event was held annually in Europe, until interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, preventing a 1940 event. An event was held in 1941, but included competitors only from nations from the Axis powers or nations not at war with them. The results were later cancelled by the FIS in 1946 because of the limited number of participants, so they are not considered official.[1]
Following the war, the championships were connected with the Olympics for several decades. From 1948 through 1982, the competition was held in even-numbered years, with the Winter Olympics acting as the World Championships through 1980, and a separate competition held in even-numbered non-Olympic years. The 1950 championships in the United States at Aspen were the first held outside of Europe and the first official championships separate of the Olympics since 1939.
The combined event was dropped after 1948 with the addition of the giant slalom in 1950, but returned in 1954 as a "paper" race which used the results of the three events: downhill, giant slalom, and slalom. During Olympic years from 1956 through 1980, FIS World Championship medals were awarded in the combined, but not Olympic medals. The combined returned as a separately run event in 1982 with its own downhill and two-run slalom, and the Super-G was added to the program in 1987. (Both were also added to the Olympics in 1988.)
There were no World Championships in 1983 or 1984 and since 1985, they have been scheduled in odd-numbered years, independent of the Winter Olympics. A lack of snow in southern Spain in 1995 caused a postponement to the following year.
| Year | Location | Downhill | Slalom | Combined | Giant slalom | Super-G | Parallel giant slalom | |
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| n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||||
| n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||||
| Walter Prager (2) | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||||
| n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||||
 Toni Seelos (2) | Toni Seelos (2) | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||
| n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||||
| n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||||
 Émile Allais (2) | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||||
| Rudolf Rominger (2) | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||||
| align=center colspan=6 | Competitions derecognized by the FIS in 1946 due to the limited number of participants during wartime. | |||||||
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| n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||||
 Zeno Colò (2) | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||||
 Stein Eriksen (2) | n/a | n/a | ||||||
| n/a | n/a | |||||||
| Toni Sailer (2) | Toni Sailer (2) | Toni Sailer (2) | n/a | n/a | ||||
| n/a | n/a | |||||||
| n/a | n/a | |||||||
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| Jean-Claude Killy (2) | Jean-Claude Killy (2) | n/a | n/a | |||||
| n/a | n/a | |||||||
| Bernhard Russi (2) | n/a | n/a | ||||||
| Gustav Thöni (2) | n/a | n/a | ||||||
| Gustav Thöni (2) | n/a | n/a | ||||||
| n/a | n/a | |||||||
 Ingemar Stenmark (2) | Ingemar Stenmark (2) | n/a | n/a | |||||
| Ingemar Stenmark (3) | n/a | n/a | ||||||
| n/a | n/a | |||||||
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 Marc Girardelli (2) | n/a | |||||||
| Rudolf Nierlich (2) | n/a | |||||||
| Cancelled[2] | n/a | |||||||
| Marc Girardelli (3) | n/a | |||||||
| Atle Skårdal (2) | n/a | |||||||
| Kjetil André Aamodt (2) | n/a | |||||||
| Kjetil André Aamodt (3) | Michael von Grünigen (2) | n/a | ||||||
| Stephan Eberharter (2) | n/a | |||||||
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| Mario Matt (2) | n/a | |||||||
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| Aksel Lund Svindal (2) | n/a | |||||||
| Aksel Lund Svindal (2) |  Ted Ligety (2) | n/a | ||||||
| Jean-Baptiste Grange (2) | Ted Ligety (3) | n/a | ||||||
| Marcel Hirscher (2) | n/a | |||||||
| Marcel Hirscher (3) | n/a | |||||||
| Mathieu Faivre | ||||||||
| Alexis Pinturault (2) | Alexander Schmid |
| Rank | Nation | Total | Downhill | Slalom | Combined | Giant slalom | Super-G | Parallel giant slalom |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 56 | 17 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 5 | — | |
| 2 | 35 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 3 | — | |
| 3 | 26 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 4 | — | 1 | |
| 4 | 24 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 3 | — | |
| 5 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | — | |
| 6 | 13 | 1 | — | 4 | 5 | 3 | — | |
| 7 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | |
| 8 | 6 | — | 4 | — | 2 | — | — | |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | 2 | — | |
| 4 | — | 1 | 3 | — | — | — | ||
| 11 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | |
| 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | ||
| 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Rank | Nation | Total | Downhill | Slalom | Combined | Giant slalom | Super-G | Parallel giant slalom |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 42 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 1 | |
| 2 | 36 | 11 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 2 | — | |
| 3 | 25 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1 | — | |
| 4 | 20 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 1 | — | |
| 5 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | — | |
| 6 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | — | — | |
| 7 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | |
| 8 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |
| 9 | 6 | 3 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | |
| 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | |
| 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | |
| 4 | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — | ||
| 13 | 2 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | |
| 14 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | |
| 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | ||
| 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
