Teams

Emerging Italy	Russia
Tries Bacchetti 2, Belardo, Chiesa 2	Tries Babaev, Otrokov, Sel'skiy
Cons Buso 2, Chillon 2	Cons Sugrobov
Team 15 FB Paolo Buso 14 W Andrea Bacchetti 13 C Denis Majstorovic 12 C Matteo Pratichetti 11 W Tommaso Iannone 10 FH Alberto Chiesa 9 SH Guglielmo Palazzani 1 P Carlo Fazzari 2 H Enrico Ceccato 3 P Dario Chistolini 4 L Leandro Cedaro 5 L Filippo Cazzola 6 F Emiliano Caffini 7 F Filippo Cristiano (c) 8 N8 Michael van Vuuren     Replacements 16 N8 Nicola Belardo 17 P Andrea Lovotti 18 P Gabriele Morelli 19 F Marco Barbini 20 SH Alberto Chillon 21 C Alessandro Tartaglia 22 FB Joe van Niekerk	Team 15 FB Andrei Otrokov 14 W Ivan Kotov 13 C Dimitri Gerasimov 12 C Alexei Makovetskiy 11 W Mikhail Babaev 10 FH Sergey Sugrobov 9 SH Alexei Shcherban 1 P Vladimir Botvinnikov 2 H Stanislav Sel'skiy 3 P Evgeni Pronenko 4 L Alexandr Voytov (c) 5 L Adam Byrnes 6 F Andrei Temnov 7 F Pavel Butenko 8 N8 Viktor Gresev     Replacements 16 H Sergey Popov 17 P Alexei Volkov 18 P Innokenty Zykov 19 F Pavel Kvernadze 20 SH Alexandr Shakirov 21 F Artem Fatakhov 22 FB Anton Ryabov

Notes

Result Emerging Italy won by a margin of 16 points

Nations Cup points Emerging Italy 5 (1 try bonus), Russia 0

Ground name Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest (neutral venue)

Referee P Fitzgibbon (Ireland)

Emerging Italy Test debuts no Test caps awarded

Russia Test debuts I Kotov, S Sel'skiy

Other scores

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Junior World Championship
Australia Under-20s	3 - 15	Argentina Under-20s	Stellenbosch
Fiji Under-20s	15 - 3	Samoa Under-20s	Bellville
France Under-20s	30 - 29	Scotland Under-20s	Bellville
NZ Under-20s	6 - 9	Wales Under-20s	Stellenbosch
England Under-20s	20 - 15	Ireland Under-20s	Stellenbosch
SA Under-20s	52 - 3	Italy Under-20s	Bellville