Aira Villegas
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.jpg) Villegas in 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Filipino | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Weight class | Bantamweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stance | Southpaw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aira Villegas is a Filipino amateur boxer.
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] 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]
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.
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