The Men's downhill competition at the
2017 World Championships was scheduled for Saturday, 11 February. Postponed due to fog, it was run from a lower start on Sunday, 12 February.
Start list
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Switzerland's Beat Feuz
Beat Feuz (; born 11 February 1987) is a Swiss FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer, specializing in the speed events of Downhill (ski competition), downhill and super-G. He is 2017 World champion and 2022 Olympic ch ...
won the gold medal, Erik Guay
Erik Guay () (born August 5, 1981) is a Canadian former World Cup alpine ski racer. Racing out of Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Guay won the World Cup season title in super-G in 2010 and was the world champion in downhill in 2011, as well as in the ...
of Canada took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Max Franz
Max Franz (born 1 September 1989) is an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer.
Born in Klagenfurt, Carinthia, he focuses on the speed events of Downhill and Super-G.
Career
Franz made his World Cup debut in November 2009 at Lake Louise, Canada ...
of Austria.[
The race course was in length, with a vertical drop of from a starting ]elevation
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of above sea level
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. Feuz's winning time of 98.91 seconds yielded an average speed of and an average vertical descent rate of .[
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Results
The race started at 13:30 CET
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''(UTC+1)''.[Final results]
/ref> Its start was lowered , shortening the length by to .
References
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Men's downhill
2017
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