Yolande Mabika

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Yolande Bukasa Mabika (born September 8, 1987 in Bukavu ) is a participant of the 2016 Summer Olympics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . She started as a judoka in the group women up to 70 kg for the Refugee Olympic Team and lives in her host country Brazil .

Life

Separated from her parents at a very young age during the Second Congo War, Mabika only remembers being alone and then being taken to the capital Kinshasa by helicopter . There she lived in a center for displaced children and learned the sport of judo.

She traveled to Rio de Janeiro for the Judo World Championships in 2013 , where she and her teammate Popole Misenga were able to flee the hotel after two days from the atrocities of their trainers, who locked them up without food or water . With the help of the aid organization Caritas , she was able to apply for political asylum. Like Popole Misenga, she got a place in the Refugee Olympic Team . Today Mabika trains with Geraldo Bernardes at the Instituto Reação in Rio de Janeiro, which was founded by Flávio Canto .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b REFUGEE OLYMPIC TEAM Document of the IOC (PDF) accessed on August 14, 2016
  2. ↑ Olympic refugee team: Judo gave Yolande Bukasa Mabika a 'strong heart'. In: rio2016.com. Rio 2016, accessed August 14, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Yolande Bukasa Mabika. In: migrantvoice.org. Migrantvoice, accessed August 14, 2016 (European Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Mabika, Yolande
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mabika, Yolande Bukasa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Congolese judoka; Olympian 2016
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Bukavu , Democratic Republic of the Congo