| Tourney Name: | South American Games Men's Water polo tournament |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Country: | Paraguay |
| City: | Asunción |
| Venue: | Centro Acuático Nacional |
| Dates: | 11–15 October 2022 |
| Num Teams: | 6 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Num Venues: | 1 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Champion: | BRA |
| Count: | 1 |
| Second: | ARG |
| Third: | COL |
| Fourth: | CHI |
| Matches: | 20 |
| Goals: | 422 |
| Top Scorer: |  Exequiel Camnasio (27 goals) |
| Website: | Tournament website |
| Previous: | 2018 |
| Next: | 2026 |
The men's tournament of the water polo at the 2022 South American Games was held from 11 to 15 October 2022 at the Centro Acuático Nacional in Asunción, Paraguay.[1] It was the third appearance of the water polo men's tournament since the first edition in Medellín 2010.
The tournament served as qualifier for the 2023 Pan American Games, with the top two teams qualifying to the men's water polo tournament.[2]
Brazil won the gold medal and their first South American Games men's water polo title after beating the defending champions Argentina 13–12 (3–2 on penalties) in the final.[3] Both teams, Brazil and Argentina, qualified for the 2023 Pan American Games as the CONSANAT representatives, besides Chile who qualified automatically as hosts.
Colombia beat Chile 18–6 to win the bronze medal.
The tournament was held over a 5-day period, from 11 to 15 October.
| PR | Preliminary round | SF | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
| Tue 11 | Wed 12 | Thu 13 | Fri 14 | Sat 15 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PR | PR | PR | SF | B | F | |
| 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | ||
A total of six ODESUR NOCs entered teams for the men's tournament. Originally, the tournament was going to be contested by seven teams including Peru, however, the Peruvian team decided to withdraw due to logistical reasons.[4] [5]
| Teams | Previous best performance | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd | Gold medal (2010, 2018) | ||
| 2nd | Bronze medal (2010) | ||
| 1st | Debut | ||
| 3rd | Silver medal (2010, 2018) | ||
| 1st | Debut | ||
| Fourth place (2018) | |||
| 1st | Debut |
Each participating NOC had to enter a roster of 13 players, including at least 2 goalkeepers (Technical manual Article 10.2).[1]
All match times are in PYST (UTC−3).
The preliminary round consisted of a single group of 6 teams in which each team played once against the other 5 teams in the group on a round-robin format. The top four teams advanced to the semi-finals and the two bottom teams played for the fifth place.
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The knockout stage consisted of the fifth place match (between the fifth and sixth placed teams of the preliminary stage), the semi-finals and the bronze and gold medal matches. The semi-finals match-ups were:
Winners of semi-finals played the gold medal match, while losers played the bronze medal match.
| width=40 | Rank | width=180 | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 6 |
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||||
| align=top | Guilherme Barella (GK) Bruno Chiappini Felipe Henrique Gomes Gustavo Coutinho Beto Freitas Marcos Pedroso Luiz Octavio Scarabelim Eduardo Cintra Bernardo Rocha Italo Vizacre Gustavo Guimarães Luis Ricardo Silva Alexandre Souza Mendes (GK) Head coach: Bárbaro Díaz | align=top | Octavio Salas (GK) Ramiro Veich Tomás Galimberti Tomás Tilatti Emanuel López Tomás Echenique Guido Martino Eduardo Bonomo Exequiel Camnasio Esteban Corsi Augusto Antunes Ignacio Setti Nicolás Fernández (GK) Head coach: Juan Pablo Giri | align=top | Camilo Camacho (GK) Nelson Bejarano José Manuel Rengifo Juan Pablo Guapacha Santiago Cuervo Sebastián Muñoz Santiago Aramburo Jairo Lizarazo Alejandro Saldarriaga Felipe Mora Enzo Salinas Juan Felipe Echeverry Tomás Gil (GK) Head coach: Ricardo Canal |
The following three teams from CONSANAT qualified for the 2023 Pan American Games men's water polo tournament, including Chile which qualified as hosts.
| Team | Qualified on | data-sort-type="number" | Previous appearances in Pan American Games1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (1951) | |||
| 13 (1951, 1955, 1959, 1963, 1971, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019) | |||
| 17 (1951, 1955, 1959, 1963, 1967, 1971, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019) |
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.