RIGA, Latvia, May 21 (AP) — Sweden became the first country to win the hockey world championship and the Olympic gold medal in the same year Sunday when it beat the defending world champion Czech Republic, 4-0.

It was the eighth world title for Sweden, which had eight Olympic champions on its roster. In the Winter Games, Sweden beat Finland in the final.

No team had managed the double in international hockey. There had been six previous times when the Olympics and world championships were played as separate tournaments in the same year.

"It's fun to be part of hockey history," Coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson said. "I think we played more or less a perfect game today."

Jesper Mattsson, Fredrik Emvall, Niklas Kronwall and the veteran Jorgen Jonsson, playing in his 11th worlds, gave Sweden a 4-0 lead after the first two periods.

In the bronze-medal game, defenseman Petteri Nummelin set up three goals to lead Finland over Canada, 5-0.

Canada, which lost last year's final to the Czech Republic after winning back-to-back titles in 2003-4, failed to win a medal for the first time in four years.