Tori Bowie, a sprinter who gained three medals at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the subsequent yr gained the world championship within the 100-meter sprint with a surprising comeback, has died. She was 32.
Her loss of life was confirmed in a press release on Wednesday by U.S.A. Track and Field, which offered no different particulars.
The Orange County, Fla., sheriff’s workplace mentioned in a press release that its personnel went to a home in Winter Garden, Fla., on Tuesday to examine on a girl in her 30s who had not been seen or heard from in a number of days. They entered the house and located the physique of a girl, whom they tentatively recognized as Frentorish (*32*) Bowie. The assertion mentioned “there were no signs of foul play.”
At the 2016 Olympics, Bowie gained a gold medal in the 4×100 relay, anchoring a workforce with Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix and English Gardner that completed the race with a time of 41.01. She gained the silver medal within the 100-meter sprint and bronze within the 200-meter.
The U.S. relay workforce superior to the Olympics last solely after profitable an enchantment of a ruling that might have disqualified them for dropping a baton in a qualifying race. The American runners were allowed a rerun after Olympic officers determined {that a} Brazilian runner had interfered with Felix as she was about handy off the baton to Gardner.
To make it to the finals, the U.S. workforce needed to run alone on the observe in a time trial and accomplish that quicker than the slowest qualifier for the finals. They did, recording the quickest time that day, and went on to win the gold with Bowie as anchor.
Bowie’s world championship title got here the subsequent yr in London, in a dramatic 100-meter race. Marie-Josée Ta Lou of Ivory Coast had sprung into the lead and appeared nicely forward of the remainder of the pack. But Bowie caught up to Ta Lou and leaned through the finish line forward of her earlier than tumbling to the bottom.
“I think it was more of a lean, and, you know, I just lost control of it,” Bowie informed an interviewer from the BBC after her win, including that the autumn got here from “just wanting to win so bad.”
She gained another gold at that world championship, within the 4×100 relay.
Her sister, Tamarra Bowie, who additionally ran observe, informed Vogue journal in 2018, “Tori has a second gear that nobody else has.”
Frentorish Bowie was born on Aug. 27, 1990. Her grandmother raised her in Sand Hill, Miss., a small city outdoors Jackson. She graduated in 2008 from Pisgah High School in Brandon, additionally within the Jackson space, the place she performed basketball, ran observe and competed within the lengthy leap.
Bowie went to the University of Southern Mississippi, the place she grew to become the nationwide champion within the lengthy leap in 2011. She graduated in 2012 with a level in interdisciplinary research.
She positioned fourth within the lengthy leap at the World Championships in Doha, Qatar, in 2019. She additionally labored as a mannequin.
Her survivors embody her sister.
Kirsten Noyes contributed analysis.
