# Volleyball at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's tournament

The men's tournament of volleyball at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, took place from July 16 to July 26. All games were held at the Exhibition Centre. The defending champions were Brazil.

## Teams
### Qualification

The following nations qualified for the men's tournament:
| Criteria | Vacancies | Qualified |
| Host Nation | 1 | Canada |
| North, Central American and Caribbean ranking | 4 | United States Cuba Puerto Rico Mexico |
| South American Ranking | 3 | Brazil Argentina Colombia |
| Total | 8 | |

### Squads

At the start of tournament, all eight participating countries had 12 players on their rosters. Final squads for the tournament were due on June 16, 2015, a month before the start of 2015 Pan American Games.
* Argentina
* Brazil
* Canada
* Colombia
* Cuba
* Mexico
* Puerto Rico
* United States

## Preliminary round

All times are local Central Daylight Time (UTC-5)
* Team qualified for the semifinals
* Team qualified for the quarterfinals

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SPW | SPL | SPR | SW | SL | SR |
| 1 | Brazil | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 258 | 220 | 1.173 | 8 | 3 | 2.667 |
| 2 | Argentina | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 243 | 205 | 1.185 | 6 | 4 | 1.500 |
| 3 | Cuba | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 255 | 255 | 1.000 | 7 | 5 | 1.400 |
| 4 | Colombia | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 149 | 225 | 0.662 | 0 | 9 | 0.000 |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SPW | SPL | SPR | SW | SL | SR |
| 1 | Canada | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 280 | 249 | 1.124 | 9 | 3 | 3.000 |
| 2 | Puerto Rico | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 268 | 248 | 1.081 | 7 | 4 | 1.750 |
| 3 | United States | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 295 | 294 | 1.003 | 6 | 7 | 0.857 |
| 4 | Mexico | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 195 | 247 | 0.789 | 1 | 9 | 0.111 |

## Elimination round
### Championship bracket

| Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final |
| | | | B1 | Canada | 1 | | | |
| A2 | Argentina | 3 | A2 | Argentina | 3 | | | |
| B3 | United States | 0 | | | | A2 | Argentina | 3 |
| | | | | | | A1 | Brazil | 2 |
| | | | A1 | Brazil | 3 |
| B2 | Puerto Rico | 3 | B2 | Puerto Rico | 0 |
| A3 | Cuba | 2 | | | | Third place | Third place | Third place |
| | | | | | | B1 | Canada | 3 |
| | | | | | | B2 | Puerto Rico | 1 |

### Gold medal match
## Final standings

| Rank | Team |
| | Argentina |
| | Brazil |
| | Canada |
| 4 | Puerto Rico |
| 5 | Cuba |
| 6 | United States |
| 7 | Mexico |
| 8 | Colombia |

## Awards

* Most valuable player
** Facundo Conte (ARG)
* Best outside hitters
** Javier Jiménez (CUB)
** Douglas Souza (BRA)
* Best middle blockers
** Liván Osoria (CUB)
** Luis Sosa (CUB)
* Best setter
** Luciano De Cecco (ARG)
* Best opposite
** Renan Buiatti (BRA)
* Best scorer
** Gavin Schmitt (CAN)
* Best server
** Gavin Schmitt (CAN)
* Best libero
** Tiago Brendle (BRA)
* Best digger
** Tiago Brendle (BRA)
* Best receiver
** Tiago Brendle (BRA)

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's tournament | Argentina Javier Filardi Nicolás Uriarte Facundo Conte José González Sebastián Solé Pablo Crer Luciano De Cecco Martín Ramos Ezequiel Palacios Maximiliano Gauna Sebastián Closter Luciano Zornetta | Brazil Carlos Eduardo Silva Thiago Veloso Flávio Gualberto Douglas Souza Maurício Souza Rafael Araújo Murilo Radke Maurício Borges Silva João Rafael Ferreira Renan Buiatti Tiago Brendle Otávio Pinto | Canada TJ Sanders John Gordon Perrin Daniel Lewis Rudy Verhoeff Adam Simac Dustin Schneider Toontje van Lankvelt Gavin Schmitt Frederic Winters Graham Vigrass Nicholas Hoag Steven Marshall |