The United States snapped Sweden's four-game winning streak, winning 5-1 in ice hockey's World Championship while Russia ended the Czech Republic's unbeaten string 2-1 Sunday evening.

Mike Knuble, Yan Stastny, Erik Cole, Mike Modano and Brian Gionta scored for the United States, which moved to five points and second place in the Group F standings.

Two-time defending champion Canada, which tied Finland 3-3 earlier, also has five while Sweden kept the lead with six points.

In another Group E game, Slovakia beat Switzerland 3-1.

In Vienna, Ilya Kovalchuk and Andrei Semin scored for Russia, which had not defeated the Czechs since 2002 in the worlds.

The win puts Russia in top spot in Group E, level on six points with the Czechs. However, the Russians remain the only unbeaten team in the entire tournament. Slovakia is third with five points and Switzerland fourth with three points.

In the early Group F game, Rick Nash and Patrick Marleau scored 51 seconds apart midway through the last period, helping Canada earn a point against Finland.

Earlier, Denmark rallied from two goals down in the opening period to edge Austria 4-3 in a relegation-round game in Innsbruck.

Slovenia and Denmark have two points each atop the standings. Germany and Austria have one point each. The two top teams in the relegation round will stay in the championship next year, the last two are demoted.

Ice hockey world championship standings

Following are the world ice hockey championship qualifying and relegation round group standings after Sunday's matches (tabulated under matches played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points):

Russia 4 2 2 0 10 7 6

Czech Republic 4 3 0 1 10 4 6

Slovakia 4 2 1 1 9 10 5

Switzerland 4 1 1 2 7 10 3

Belarus 3 1 0 2 3 4 2

Kazakhstan 3 0 0 3 1 5 0

Sweden 4 3 0 1 14 12 6

Canada 4 2 1 1 16 13 5

United States 4 2 1 1 13 9 5

Finland 4 1 2 1 12 13 4

Latvia  3 1 0 2 8 9 2

Ukraine  3 0 0 3 3 10 0

Slovenia 1 1 0 0 4 3 2

Denmark 2 1 0 1 7 7 2

Germany 1 0 1 0 2 2 1

Austria 2 0 1 1 5 6 1