Aira Villegas
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| Born | August 1, 1995 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Filipino | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Weight class | Light Flyweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stance | Southpaw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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.
Career
[edit]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]
Summer Olympics
[edit]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)
References
[edit]- ^ Henson, Joaquin (May 4, 2022). "Aira lone rep in world tilt". The Philippine Star. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
- ^ "Villegas makes quarterfinals in women's world championships". BusinessMirror. May 16, 2022. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
- ^ Galvez, Waylon (September 10, 2021). "Catantan, Ando part of new group of athletes under IOC program". Manila Bulletin. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
- ^ "Aira Villegas bows to Mongolian foe in Asian Games". One Sport. September 24, 2023. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
- ^ "Gabuco, Paalam, Marcial advance to SEAG boxing finals". Tiebreaker Times. December 6, 2019. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
- ^ "Boxing 1st World Qualification Tournament - Busto Arsizio: Which boxers have obtained quotas for Paris 2024?". Olympics. March 11, 2024. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
- ^ Valderrama, Aeron Paul (March 12, 2024). "Road to Paris: Nesthy Petecio, Aira Villegas clinch Olympic berths in Busto Arsizio". Tiebreaker Times. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
External links
[edit]- Boxing record for Aira Villegas from BoxRec (registration required)
- Aira Villegas at Olympics.com
- Aira Villegas at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- People from Tacloban
- Filipino women boxers
- Competitors at the 2015 SEA Games
- Competitors at the 2017 SEA Games
- Competitors at the 2019 SEA Games
- Asian Games competitors for the Philippines
- SEA Games bronze medalists for the Philippines
- SEA Games medalists in boxing
- Boxers at the 2022 Asian Games
- Living people
- 1995 births
- Boxers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers for the Philippines
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Philippines
- Olympic medalists in boxing