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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.
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]
Light flyweight (50 kg) Olympic qualification
2024 Summer Olympics results
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