The women's tournament of the volleyball at the 2022 South American Games was held from 10 to 14 October 2022 at the Paraguayan Volleyball Federation facilities in the SND complex cluster in Asunción, Paraguay. It was the sixth appearance of the volleyball women's tournament since the first edition in La Paz 1978 (it was not held from Santiago 1986 to Buenos Aires 2006).

Peru won the gold medal and their second South American Games women's volleyball title after beating Argentina by a narrow 3–2 score in the final. Chile beat the defending champions Colombia 3–0 to win the bronze medal.

Schedule The tournament was held over a 5-day period, from 10 to 14 October.

PRPreliminary roundSFSemi-finalsBBronze medal matchFGold medal match Mon 10 Tue 11 Wed 12 Thu 13 Fri 14PR PR PR SF B F2 2 2 2 3

Teams A total of six ODESUR NOCs entered teams for the women's tournament.

TeamsPrevious best performance5thGold medal (2014)2ndGold medal (1978)3rdSilver medal (2014)4thGold medal (2018)2ndSilver medal (1978)5thGold medal (1982)

Rosters

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

Results All match times are in PYST (UTC−3).

Preliminary round The preliminary round or group stage consisted of two groups of 3 teams, each group was played under round-robin format with the top two teams progressing to the semi-finals and the third placed team of each group advancing to the fifth place match.

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

Pool A

Pool B

Final round The final round consisted of the fifth place match (between the third placed teams of pools A and B), the semi-finals and the bronze and gold medal matches. The semi-finals match-ups were:

Semifinal 1: Winners Pool A v Runners-up Pool B Semifinal 2: Winners Pool B v Runners-up Pool A

Winners of semi-finals played the gold medal match, while losers played the bronze medal match.

Semi-finals

Fifth place match

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Final ranking

RankTeam456

2022 Women's South American Volleyball Champions PeruSecond title

Team roster: Diana de la Peña, María Paula Rodríguez, Maricarmen Guerrero, Aixa Vigil, Kiara Vicente, Ángela Barboza, María José Rojas, Karla Ortiz (c), Nayeli Calderón, Jade Cuya, Ysabella Sánchez, Esmeralda Sánchez (L) Head coach: Francisco Hervás

Medalists GoldSilverBronzeDiana de la PeñaMaría Paula RodríguezMaricarmen GuerreroAixa VigilKiara VicenteÁngela BarbozaMaría José RojasKarla Ortiz (c)Nayeli CalderónJade CuyaYsabella SánchezEsmeralda Sánchez (L)Head coach: Francisco HervásDalma PérezAvril GarcíaJulieta ArugaGuadalupe MartínValentina VauletRosa ReinosoMaría Luz Cosulich (c)Julieta CerviniMarlen SiriMaría de la Paz CorbalánCamila GiraudoValentina González (L)Head coach: Marcelo Fabián SilvaFlorencia GiglioCamila Donoso (L)Beatriz Novoa (c)Paula SalinasKaren MoralesGabriela BadillaElisa SandrockCamila MendozaRaphaella AniegbunaPaula VallejosCatalina NuñezPetra SchwartzmanHead coach: Eduardo Guillaume

References

External links ASU2022 Volleyball Teams Female at ASU2022 official website.