Aira Villegas

In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is Cordero and the surname or paternal family name is Villegas.

Aira Villegas OLY
Villegas in 2024
Born	(1995-08-01) August 1, 1995 (age 29) Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines
Nationality	Filipino
Statistics
Weight class	Light Flyweight
Stance	Southpaw
Medal record Women's boxing Representing the  Philippines Event 1st 2nd 3rd Summer Olympic Games 0 0 1 Southeast Asian Games 0 0 1 Total 0 0 2 Olympic Games 2024 Paris Light Flyweight Southeast Asian Games 2019 Philippines Bantamweight

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

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

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

1. Henson, Joaquin (May 4, 2022). "Aira lone rep in world tilt". The Philippine Star. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
2. "Villegas makes quarterfinals in women's world championships". BusinessMirror. May 16, 2022. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
3. Galvez, Waylon (September 10, 2021). "Catantan, Ando part of new group of athletes under IOC program". Manila Bulletin. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
4. "Aira Villegas bows to Mongolian foe in Asian Games". One Sport. September 24, 2023. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
5. "Gabuco, Paalam, Marcial advance to SEAG boxing finals". Tiebreaker Times. December 6, 2019. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
6. "Boxing 1st World Qualification Tournament - Busto Arsizio: Which boxers have obtained quotas for Paris 2024?". Olympics. March 11, 2024. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
7. 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

• Boxing record for Aira Villegas from BoxRec (registration required)
• Aira Villegas at Olympics.com
• Aira Villegas at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics