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Aira Villegas
Filipino boxer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aira Cordero Villegas OLY (born August 1, 1995) is a Filipino amateur boxer. She won a bronze medal in the inaugural women's Light Flyweight event at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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Career
Villegas is a Southpaw hailing from Tacloban. She has competed in at least two editions of the IBA Women's World Boxing Championships in the -52kg division.[1] For the 2022 edition in Turkey, she was forced to move to the -50kg division after her previous class was scrapped.[2]
In 2021, the Philippine Olympic Committee named Villegas as a beneficiary of the Olympics Solidarity Scholarship Grant by the International Olympic Committee.[3]
She has also competed at the 2022 Asian Games which was held in September 2023 in Hangzhou, China.[4] Villegas is also a Southeast Asian Games medalist, having won a bronze in the 2019 edition organized in the Philippines.[5]
Villegas would qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, by winning the quota bouts round, of the women's flyweight division, at the 2024 World Olympic Qualification Tournament 1 in Busto Arsizio, Italy.[6][7]
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Summer Olympics
Light flyweight (50 kg) Olympic qualification
- Defeated Mckenzie Wright (Canada) PTS 3-2
- Defeated Sofie Rosshaug (Denmark) UD 5-0
- Defeated Zlatislava Chukanova (Bulgaria) UD 5-0
2024 Summer Olympics results
- Defeated Yasmine Mouttaki (Morocco) UD 5-0
- Defeated Roumaysa Boualam (Algeria) UD 5-0
- Defeated Wassila Lkhadiri (France) SD 3-2
- Lost to Buse Naz Çakıroğlu (Turkey) UD 5-0 (claim bronze medal)
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