Aira Cordero Villegas (born August 1, 1995) is a Filipino

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. 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 Tacloban ( ; ), officially the City of Tacloban (; ), is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city on Leyte island in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, Tacloban has a popu ...

. She has competed in at least two editions of the IBA Women's World Boxing Championships in the -52kg division. For the 2022 edition in Turkey, she was forced to move to the -50kg division after her previous class was scrapped. In 2021, the

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named Villegas as a beneficiary of the Olympics Solidarity Scholarship Grant by the

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. She has also competed at the

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which was held in September 2023 in Hangzhou, China. Villegas is also a

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medalist, having won a bronze in the 2019 edition organized in the Philippines. Villegas would qualify for the

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in Paris, by winning the quota bouts round, of the women's flyweight division, at the 2024 World Olympic Qualification Tournament 1 in

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, Italy.

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

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(Turkey) UD 5-0 (claim bronze medal)

References

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Paris 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...

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