OSTERSUND – It was a much happier Canadian men's team which came off the ice at the end of their third round match at the World Junior Curling Championships.

William Dion's side rebounded from their defeat by Denmark Sunday night and overcame Krystof Chaloupek's Czech Republic squad by 6-2 count.

"It was a much, much, much, much better game," emphasized Dion.

"We're a good team but yesterday we all decided to play bad in the same game. We came here today confident. We played our game, which is more defensive. We were on TV, perhaps it was not so interesting. But we didn't care, we just wanted make sure of the win."

In other men's third-round matches, Switzerland beat Denmark 10-4 to become the only undefeated country with three wins, and Oskar Eriksson's Swedes outsocred the United States 10-7. China upset Norway 5-3 in a game which went down to the last stone, and Scotland was demolished 10-3 by Germany in just eight ends.

In women's fourth-round action, Madeleine Dupont's Danish team lost their undefeated record with a loss to Canada. Denmark enjoyed leads of 5-2 and 6-3 but dropped a three-count in the final end for the 9-7 loss. Canadian skip Kaitlyn Lawes didn't need to throw her final stone.

"After the break we just played worse and worse and worse," said Dupont, who lost the 2007 women's world final to Canada's Kelly Scott. "I thought we had a chance all the way to the end.

"We tried stealing (the last end) but it didn't work."

Denmark still shares top place with Sweden and Scotland, and every team in the women's event has won at least one game.

Dupont was confident her team can stay at the top amongst the leaders.

"I still think we have a chance of course. The rest of the teams, we can beat these. We could have beaten these (Canadian) guys too."

In other evening women's matches, Sweden edged Russia 6-4, Switzerland beat Germany 7-3 and Scotland finished 8-4 in front of Japan. The United States also entered the win column with a 10th-end win over Norway.

Real-time results are available at: www.curlingkanalen.se with daily results mirrored on the World Curling Federation website at: results.worldcurling.org

Curlingkanalen is also webcasting selected matches live during the championships.

The event host website is: www.wjcc2008.org