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.

[1][2] Switzerland's Beat Feuz won the gold medal, Erik Guay of Canada took the silver, and the bronze medalist was Max Franz of Austria.

[3] The race course was 2.920 km (1.814 mi) in length, with a vertical drop of 705 m (2,313 ft) from a starting elevation of 2,745 m (9,006 ft) above sea level.

Feuz's winning time of 98.91 seconds yielded an average speed of 106.278 km/h (66.0 mph) and an average vertical descent rate of 7.1277 m/s (23.4 ft/s).