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Born | Tacloban City, Philippines | August 1, 1995|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Filipino | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Weight class | Bantamweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stance | Southpaw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aira Villegas (born August 1, 1995) is a Filipino amateur boxer.
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] Villehas 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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