Tony Yoka was born in Paris in 1992. He is French, he made the Marseillaise resonate at the top of an Olympic podium in 2016, in Rio. “I am proud to be French. Some people don’t dare say it, but I proclaim it loud and clear. I make no secret of it: I love France, my country,” he insists. The heavyweight gold medalist boxer almost ten years ago is also Congolese in his heart. The Democratic Republic of Congo is his father’s country.
Tony Yoka is also a football fan, supporter of PSG, Cristiano Ronaldo and the French team. He was present in Moscow in 2018 when the Blues of Deschamps won the second star.
