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Filipina boxer Aira Villegas items herself with the absolute best current on her twenty ninth birthday as she advances to the ladies’s 50kg quarterfinals within the Paris Olympics
MANILA, Philippines – Filipina boxer Aira Villegas celebrated her twenty ninth birthday in essentially the most memorable trend within the Paris Olympics.
Villegas gifted herself with the absolute best current as she superior to the ladies’s 50kg quarterfinals after disposing of Algeria’s Roumaysa Boualam on the North Paris Enviornment on Thursday, August 1 (Friday, August 2, Manila time).
“That is one of the best reward ever to myself. I’ll keep in mind this for the remainder of my life. It is a reward to my youthful self and to my future self. I heard [fans singing happy birthday]. I’m very grateful,” Villegas advised reporters.
Getting the nod of all 5 judges by scores of 30-27, 30-27, 29-28, 29-28, 29-28, Villegas moved inside a victory of a assured medal.
The delight of Tacloban Metropolis clinched the primary and third rounds to arrange a date with residence guess Wassila Lkhadiri of France as they lock horns for a spot within the semifinals on Saturday, August 3 (Sunday, August 4, Manila time).
All 4 semifinalists are assured of no less than a bronze.
“I’m very pleased with myself,” Villegas stated. “In the meanwhile, a medal is simply solely a dream. However I’m right here. And I’m very proud that I will be right here.”
Boualam, a two-time African Video games champion, stored the end result within the steadiness when she received the second spherical, 3-2, however slowed down within the last spherical as Villegas landed the clearer pictures to nail the unanimous resolution win.
Villegas’ triumph marked her second over a foe from the African continent after she beat Morocco’s Yasmine Mouttaki within the spherical of 32, additionally through unanimous resolution.
Reaching the semifinals, although, is not going to come straightforward for Villegas as she faces a difficult opponent in Lkhadiri, who bagged bronze within the earlier IBA Girls’s World Boxing Championships.
Lkhadiri, who drew a first-round bye because the seventh seed, reached the quarterfinals following a 4-1 victory over Eire’s Daina Moorehouse within the spherical of 16.
Additionally nonetheless within the working for boxing medals are Nesthy Petecio (ladies’s 57kg) and Carlo Paalam (males’s 57kg). – with a report from Reuters/Rappler.com
