The Italian Junior team had a record day, beating Austria 25-4, Finland 25-3, and Croatia 25-5. This put Italy 16 points clear of Russia.

Making their first appearance on VuGraph, the World Champions Denmark destroyed The Netherlands 25-3, a severe blow to the chances of the Dutch.

But in the last match of the day Denmark were beaten 4-25 by Israel, pushing Denmark back down to fifth and moving Israel into third place.

In Round 15 the six leading six teams won by wide margins and started to pull clear of the field. In the second match it was very much the same story, except for Sweden who were beaten 4-25 by the Austrian hosts. That enabled Turkey to leapfrog over them into sixth place. In the final match of the day another key result was Sweden's win over Norway 17-13 on the Vu-Graph.

Italy continued to march on to almost certain victory. The key result came in the last match of the day when Italy beat The Netherlands 24-6.

The Dutch, with two good results earlier in the day, had moved into second place and looked to be the main threat.

There is a tremendous battle for the remaining medals with just 6 points covering the four following teams: The Netherlands, Sweden, Poland and Norway.