of the year. In Kitzbühel, the signs became clear Feuz was coming into form for the World Championships. A 3rd place in the Super-G was followed the next day in the downhill by a fall on the Traverse, with Feuz having led eventual winner Dominik Paris by 0.72 seconds entering the section. Fortunately, Feuz escaped from the netting unharmed and claimed another podium at Garmisch in his final race before the World Championships. Feuz entered the World Championships with high expectations from the Swiss ski fans thanks to his performance on the track at the World Cup finals the previous year, and this was only increased when Feuz won the only training run he started fairly comfortably, despite normally not pushing too hard in the training runs. Feuz came 12th in the Super-G but, like the rest of the athletes, was forced to wait an extra day for the downhill to take place thanks to the weather. On what was dubbed ″Downhill Super Sunday″ due to the fact both the men's and women's downhills would take place on the same day, the early runners in the men's race were hampered more than a little by fog on the upper section. Feuz had chosen bib 13, and the lead changed hands several times with the racers before him as the course appeared to be quickening up as the fog lifted. Although slightly behind on the top gliding section, Feuz was excellent on the jumps and turns in the middle part of the course, and although Feuz appeared to get slightly late on the critical Felsen section, he managed to carry the speed through it and went on to take the lead by 0.39 seconds at that point. A nervous wait followed as nearly every remaining top racer beat Feuz's time at the top of the course. The closest to Feuz on the day was Erik Guay, who was leading by 0.04 seconds at the penultimate split time but couldn't match Feuz through Felsen and dropped back to 0.42 behind. Nonetheless, the Canadian managed to make up 0.3 of a second from that intermediate to the finish. Feuz, therefore, claimed the gold medal by 0.12 seconds to live up to his tag as the favourite for the race and make it back-to-back World downhill golds for the Swiss men's team. Feuz claimed one more podium finish in 2017 in the second downhill