| Aira Villegas | |
| Weight Class: | Light Flyweight |
| Nationality: | Filipino |
| Stance: | Southpaw |
| Birth Date: | 1 August 1995 |
| Birth Place: | Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines |
| Boxrec: | 869313 |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Aira Cordero Villegas (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