# Volleyball at the 2022 South American Games – Men's tournament

The men's tournament of the volleyball at the 2022 South American Games was held from 4 to 8 October 2022 at the Paraguayan Volleyball Federation facilities in the SND complex cluster in Asunción, Paraguay. It was the sixth appearance of the volleyball men's tournament since the first edition in La Paz 1978 (it was not held from Santiago 1986 to Buenos Aires 2006).
Argentina were the five-time defending champions, having won all the previous editions of the tournament, but did not participate in this edition leaving its place vacant.
Chile won the gold medal and their first South American Games men's volleyball title after finishing in the first place of the single group with a match record of 4 wins and 0 losses and without conceding any set. Colombia and Peru got the silver and bronze medals respectively.

## Schedule

The tournament was held over a 5-day period, from 4 to 8 October.
| GM | Group matches | G | Gold medal match |
| Tue 4 | Wed 5 | Thu 6 | Fri 7 | Sat 8 | Sat 8 |
| GM | GM | GM | GM | GM | G |
| 2 M | 2 M | 2 M | 2 M | 2 M | 2 M |

## Teams

A total of six ODESUR NOCs entered teams for the men's tournament.
| Teams | App | Previous best performance |
| Bolivia | 3rd | Silver medal (1978) |
| Chile | 4th | Silver medal (2014, 2018) |
| Colombia | 4th | Bronze medal (2010) |
| Paraguay | 2nd | Bronze medal (1978) |
| Peru | 5th | Bronze medal (1982) |

### Rosters

Each participating NOC had to enter a roster of 12 players (Technical manual Article 9.3).

## Competition format

The tournament consisted of a single group of 5 teams in which each team played once against the other 4 teams in the group on a single round-robin format (Technical manual Article 5). The top three teams were awarded gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.

## Results
### Standings

The pool ranking criteria was the following (Technical manual Articles 5.2 and 5.3):
* Number of matches won
* Match points
** Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
** Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
* Sets ratio
* Points ratio
* Result of the match between the tied teams
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Final result |
| 1 | Chile (C) | 4 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 0 | MAX | 302 | 200 | 1.510 | Gold medal |
| 2 | Colombia | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 1.286 | 341 | 330 | 1.033 | Silver medal |
| 3 | Peru | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 1.333 | 303 | 303 | 1.000 | Bronze medal |
| 4 | Paraguay (H) | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0.556 | 299 | 311 | 0.961 | Fourth place |
| 5 | Bolivia | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.000 | 202 | 303 | 0.667 | Fifth place |

### Matches

All match times are in PYST (UTC−3).

## Final ranking

| Rank | Team |
| | Chile |
| | Colombia |
| | Peru |
| 4 | Paraguay |
| 5 | Bolivia |
* 2022 Men's South American Volleyball Champions
* Chile First title
* Team roster: Esteban Villarreal, Vicente Ibarra, Gabriel Araya, Tomás Parraguirre, Vicente Parraguirre, Tomás Gago, Sebastián Albornoz, Dusan Bonacic (c), Vicente Mardones, Sebastián Castillo (L), Jaime Bravo Kaj Bonacic
* Head coach: Daniel Nejamkin

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Chile Esteban Villarreal Vicente Ibarra Gabriel Araya Tomás Parraguirre Vicente Parraguirre Tomás Gago Sebastián Albornoz Dusan Bonacic (c) Vicente Mardones Sebastián Castillo (L) Jaime Bravo Kaj Bonacic Head coach: Daniel Nejamkin | Colombia Orian Medina Juan Velasco Ronnie Mosquera Leiner Aponzá Juan Estupiñan Samuel Jaramillo Daniel Medina (c) Roosvuelt Ramos (L) Oliver Murillo Santiago Ruiz Jhon Cuello Harry Rivas Head coach: Jorge Schmidt | Peru Jassir Morón (L) Sebastián Blanco Bruno Seminario Benjamín Patrón Hiroshi la Torre Eduardo Romay (c) Daniel Barbieri Juan Silva-Santisteban Benny Bernaola Álvaro Hidalgo Francis Mendoza Daniel Porras Head coach: Juan Carlos Gala |