Next year the combined event was added to the program as a "paper" race which used the results of the downhill and slalom.
During the 1930s, the competition was held annually in Europe, until interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, preventing a 1940 event.
The results were later cancelled by the FIS in 1946 because of the limited number of participants, so they are not considered official.
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.
In 2025, the individual combined event was replaced with team combined event (which involve two-person national teams assigned to downhill and slalom respectively) and the parallel giant slalom was dropped from the World Championships.