Volleyball at the 2019 Pan American Games

Volleyball competitions at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru are scheduled to be held from August 2 to 11. The venue for the competition is the Sports Centre VRDC located at the Villa Deportiva Regional del Callao cluster.[1] The venue will also host the taekwondo competitions. A total of eight men's and eight women's teams (each consisting up to 12 athletes) competed in each tournament. This means a total of 192 athletes are scheduled to compete.[2]

Volleyball at the XVIII Pan American Games
Volleyball pictogram
VenueSports Centre VRDC
DatesAugust 2–11, 2019
Competitors192
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Tournamentmenwomen
Squadsmenwomen


Medalists
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's tournament
  Argentina (ARG)
Manuel Balague
Nicolás Bruno
Gastón Fernández
Joaquín Gallego
Matías Giraudo
Facundo Imhoff
German Johansen
Jan Martínez
Franco Massimino
Luciano Palonsky
Matías Sánchez
Lisandro Zanotti		  Cuba (CUB)
Roamy Alonso
Javier Concepción
Yonder García
Adrián Goide
Jesús Herrera
Yohan León
Miguel López
José Massó
Osniel Mergarejo
Liván Osoria
Lyvan Taboada
Marlon Yant		  Brazil (BRA)
Aboubacar Neto
Carlos Silva
Cledenílson Batista
Éder Carbonera
Eduardo Sobrinho
Felipe Roque
Henrique Honorato
Lucas Lóh
Matheus Santos
Rodrigo Leão
Rogério Filho
Thiago Veloso
Women's tournament
  Dominican Republic (DOM)
Cándida Arias
Brenda Castillo
Bethania de la Cruz
Camil Domínguez
Lisvel Eve
Gaila González
Niverka Marte
Brayelin Martínez
Jineiry Martínez
Yonkaira Peña
Prisilla Rivera
Annerys Vargas		  Colombia (COL)
Valerín Carabali
Amanda Coneo
Camila Gómez
María Margarita Martínez
María Alejandra Marin
Darlevis Mosquera
Ana Karina Olaya
Verónica Pasos
Melissa Rangel
Dayana Segóvia
Juliana Toro
Angie Velásquez		  Argentina (ARG)
Tanya Acosta
Daniela Bulaich
Antonela Fortuna
Lucía Fresco
Valentina Galiano
Candelaria Herrera
Julieta Lazcano
Victoria Mayer
Agnes Michel
Paula Nizetich
Tatiana Rizzo
Elina Rodríguez

Participating nations

Eleven countries have qualified volleyball teams so far. The numbers of participants qualified are in parentheses.

Qualification

A total of eight men's teams and eight women's team will qualify to compete at the games in each tournament. The host nation (Peru) received automatic qualification in both tournaments. All other teams qualified through various tournaments.[2] The North and South American qualification tournaments are held with teams competing (and not qualifying) at the respective Pan American Cups, plus any possible invited teams. The last slot can also be awarded to a team.[2]

Men
Event Dates Location Vacancies Qualified
Host Nation N/A N/A 1  Peru
2018 Men's Pan-American Volleyball Cup[3] 28 August–2 September Córdoba 5  Argentina
 Brazil
 Cuba
 Puerto Rico
 Mexico
2019 Men's Pan-American Volleyball Cup 16–21 June Colima City 2  United States
 Chile
Total8

Women
Event Dates Location Vacancies Qualified
Host Nation N/A N/A 1  Peru
2018 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup[4][5] 8–14 July Santo Domingo 5  United States
 Dominican Republic
 Canada
 Brazil
 Colombia
North American Qualification Tournament 4–6 January 2019 San Juan 1  Puerto Rico
FIVB World Rankings - - 1  Argentina
Total8

See also

References
  1. "Pan American Schedule" (PDF). www.lima2019.pe. Lima Organizing Committee for the 2019 Pan and Parapan American Games (COPAL). 13 June 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  2. "Qualification System manual" (PDF). www.panamsports.org/. Pan American Sports Organization. 7 July 2018. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  3. "Puerto Rico reaches semifinals and qualifies to Pan Am Games". NORCECA. 31 August 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2018. Puerto Rico needed almost two hours (1:53) to subdue the host in a heated match to reach the semifinals of the competition, in addition to the feat of qualifying to the 2019 Lima Pan American Games along with Brazil, Argentina and Cuba.
  4. "D.R., US, Canada, Brazil qualify in women's volleyball for 2019 Pan Am games". EFE. Madrid, Spain. 13 July 2018. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  5. Mayer, Wendy (14 July 2018). "Colombia Edges Puerto Rico for Fifth Place; Cese Leads Cuba to Seventh". www.volleymob.com/. Volley Mob. Retrieved 15 July 2018. With the win, Colombia claimed the final spot in next year’s Pan American Games in Lima, Peru
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