Where the world’s best competitors meet
The FIS World Ski Championships take place in all FIS disciplines — Alpine Skiing, Nordic Skiing, Snowboarding and Freestyle. The world’s best competitors in each discipline meet together to establish world leading status. While Alpine Skiing is the longest-established and best known of this family of World Championships, all of them have a major impact. Inaugurated in Mürren, Switzerland in 1931 the events are widely spread and have attracted television audiences throughout the world.

In 2009 the FIS World Ski Championships provided a continuous and exciting series of four events throughout the season The 2009 Alpine Skiing World Championships took place in the popular resort of Val d’Isère, followed by the 2009 FIS Snowboard World Championships in the Republic of Korea, the Nordic event in the Czech Republic and the exciting Freestyle event in Japan.

Worldwide attention
All the championships involve skiers from many nations and attract audiences throughout the world. The 2009 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Val d’Isere, France, reached a record cumulative viewing audience of 517 million over two weeks in the major markets. The 2009 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec, Czech Republic, did even better, with an outstanding cumulative television audience of 567 million viewers. The total broadcast hours, again just for the main markets, were 620 hours for Val d’Isère and 800 hours for Liberec.

All the World Championships are available both on satellite and/or tape, at broadcasters’ request.