| 2020 South American Games men's rugby sevens tournament | |
| Type: | sevens |
| Host: | Paraguay |
| City: | Asunción |
| Venue: | Estadio Héroes de Curupayty |
| Date: | 7–9 October 2022 |
| Nations: | 7 |
| Champion: | ARG |
| Count: | 2 |
| Runnerup: | CHI |
| Third: | URU |
| Fourth: | BRA |
| Matches: | 24 |
| Tries: | 135 |
| Preceded By: | 2018 |
| Succeeded By: | 2026 |
The men's tournament of the rugby sevens at the 2022 South American Games was held from 7 to 9 October 2022 at the Estadio Héroes de Curupayty in Luque, Paraguay, a sub-venue outside Asunción.[1] It was the third edition of the rugby sevens men's tournament at the South American Games since its first appearance in Santiago 2014.
The tournament served as qualifier for the 2023 Pan American Games, with the top two teams (excluding Chile) qualifying to the men's rugby sevens tournament.[2]
Argentina won the gold medal and their second South American Games men's rugby sevens title after beating the defending champions Chile 19–7 in the final. Uruguay beat Brazil with a 19–12 score to win the bronze medal.[3]
Argentina and Uruguay qualified for the 2023 Pan American Games as the Sudamérica Rugby representatives, besides Chile which qualified automatically as hosts.[4]
The tournament was held over a 3-day period, from 7 to 9 October.[5]
| PR | Preliminary round | PM | Placement match | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
| Fri 7 | Sat 8 | Sun 9 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morning | Evening | Morning | Evening | Morning | Evening | |||
| PR | PR | PR | PR | PR | PM | B | F | |
| 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
A total of nine ODESUR NOCs entered teams for the men's tournament.
| Teams | Previous best performance | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd | Gold medal (2014) | ||
| 3rd | Fourth place (2014, 2018) | ||
| 3rd | Gold medal (2018) | ||
| 3rd | Fifth place (2014, 2018) | ||
| 3rd | Sixth place (2014, 2018) | ||
| 2nd | Seventh place (2014) | ||
| 3rd | Silver medal (2014, 2018) |
Each participating NOC had to enter a roster of 12 players (Technical manual Article 9).[1]
All matches were played at the Estadio Héroes de Curupayty located within the Parque Olímpico cluster in Luque, Paraguay and owned by the Paraguayan Olympic Committee.[6] The Estadio Héroes de Curupayty, which was remodeled in 2020, has a capacity for 3,000 spectators.[7] [8]
All match times are in PYST (UTC−3).[9]
The preliminary round consisted of a single group of 7 teams in which each team played once against the other 6 teams in the group on a round-robin format. The fifth and sixth placed teams advanced to play for the fifth place, the third and fourth placed teams advanced to the bronze medal match and the first and second placed teams advanced to the gold medal match.
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The final stage consisted of the fifth place match, the bronze medal match and the gold medal match.
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||||
| align=top | Rodrigo Isgro Santiago Vera Feld Ramiro D'Agostino Tomás Lizazú Agustín Fraga Benjamín Elizalde Joaquín Pellandini Franco Rossetto Matías Osadczuk Tobias Wade Franco Giudice Marcos Moneta (c) Head coach: Leonardo Gravano | align=top | Ernesto Tchimino Manuel Bustamante Clemente Armstrong Tomás Alvarado Diego Warnken Cristóbal Game Dante Marchesse Lucca Avelli Benjamín Videla Joaquín Huici Julio Blanc Vicente Urbina Head coach: Edmundo Olfos | align=top | James McCubbin Marcos Pastore Tomás Etcheverry Carlos Deus Lopes Icaro Amarillo Diego Ardao Mateo Viñals Valentín Grille Guillermo Lijtenstein Ignacio Álvarez Ignacio Facciolo Koba Brazionis Head coach: Francisco Bulanti |
The following four teams from Sudamérica Rugby qualified for the 2023 Pan American Games women's rugby sevens tournament, including Chile which qualified as hosts.[4]
| Team | Qualified on | data-sort-type="number" | Previous appearances in Pan American Games1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 (all) (2011, 2015, 2019) | |||
| 3 (all) (2011, 2015, 2019) | |||
| 3 (all) (2011, 2015, 2019) |
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.