Alpine Skiing World Championship Hosts

The official Alpine World Ski Championships are organized by the FIS and are currently held every two years. The championships were first held back in 1931 in the Swiss resort of Murren, and at that time were held every year. When the championships resumed after the end of the 2nd World War, the Winter Olympics also counted as the world championships - doubling up for both events, and this happened until the 1980 Lake Placid games, after which the World Championships have had their own dedicated events every two years. The 1950 championships at Aspen was the first time the event was held outside Europe, and since then the FIS have tried to stage the games around the world, with Chile, Japan, the USA and Spain all hosting it, along with the traditional alpine and North European nations.

List of Hosts for Alpine Ski World Championships

Here's the list of all the venues for the Alpine Ski World Championships since the event was first run back in 1931. We've made a note of the years between 1948 and 1980 where the Winter Olympics also doubled as the World Championships.

A championship event was also held in 1941 at Cortina in Italy, but the FIS have since discounted these games because it only featured skiers from the World War II axis nations.

Year	Venue	Country	No.	Notes
2017	St. Moritz	Switzerland	44
2015	Vail / Beaver Creek	USA	43
2013	Schladming	Austria	42
2011	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	41
2009	Val d'Isere	France	40
2007	Are	Sweden	39
2005	Bormio	Italy	38
2003	St. Moritz	Switzerland	37
2001	St. Anton	Austria	36
1999	Vail	USA	35
1997	Sestriere	Italy	34
1996	Sierra Nevada	Spain	33
1993	Morioka	Japan	32
1991	Saalbach	Austria	31
1989	Vail	USA	30
1987	Crans-Montana	Switzerland	29
1985	Bormio	Italy	28
1982	Schladming	Austria	27
1980	Lake Placid	USA	26	Winter Olympics
1978	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	West Germany	25
1976	Innsbruck	Austria	24	Winter Olympics
1974	St. Moritz	Switzerland	23
1972	Sapporo	Japan	22	Winter Olympics
1970	Val Gardena	Italy	21
1968	Grenoble	France	20	Winter Olympics
1966	Portillo	Chile	19
1964	Innsbruck	Austria	18	Winter Olympics
1962	Chamonix	France	17
1960	Squaw Valley	USA	16	Winter Olympics
1958	Badgastein	Austria	15
1956	Cortina	Italy	14	Winter Olympics
1954	Are	Sweden	13
1952	Oslo	Norway	12	Winter Olympics
1950	Aspen	USA	11
1948	St. Moritz	Switzerland	10	Winter Olympics
1939	Zakopane	Poland	9
1938	Engelberg	Switzerland	8
1937	Chamonix	France	7
1936	Innsbruck	Austria	6
1935	Murren	Switzerland	5
1934	St. Moritz	Switzerland	4
1933	Innsbruck	Austria	3
1932	Cortina	Italy	2
1931	Murren	Switzerland	1

Most-Used World Ski Championship Venue

St Moritz has hosted the most Alpine Ski World Championships, with five. The Swiss resort doubled-up as the Winter Olympics in 1948 but has held four specific World Championship events in 1934, 1974, 2003 and most recently in 2017. Innsbruck has hosted the Alpine Ski World Championships four times. However, two of those have been when it hosted the Winter Olympics, in 1964 and 1976.

Number	Venue	Country	Years
5	St. Moritz	Switzerland	1934 1948 1974 2003 2017
4	Innsbruck	Austria	1933 1936 1964 1976
3	Vail / Beaver Creek	USA	1989 1999 2015
2	Are	Sweden	1954 2007
2	Bormio	Italy	1985 2005
2	Chamonix	France	1937 1962
2	Cortina	Italy	1932 1956
2	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	1978 2011
2	Murren	Switzerland	1931 1935
2	Schladming	Austria	1982 2013
1	Aspen	USA	1950
1	Badgastein	Austria	1958
1	Crans-Montana	Switzerland	1987
1	Engelberg	Switzerland	1938
1	Grenoble	France	1968
1	Lake Placid	USA	1980
1	Morioka	Japan	1993
1	Oslo	Norway	1952
1	Portillo	Chile	1966
1	Saalbach	Austria	1991
1	Sapporo	Japan	1972
1	Sestriere	Italy	1997
1	Sierra Nevada	Spain	1996
1	Squaw Valley	USA	1960
1	St. Anton	Austria	2001
1	Val d'Isere	France	2009
1	Val Gardena	Italy	1970
1	Zakopane	Poland	1939

Next Up...

The next few venues for the Alpine Skiing World Championships have been chosen. They are...

Year	Venue	Country
2019	Åre	Sweden
2021	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Italy