Tori Bowie, a sprinter who received three medals on the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the subsequent yr received the world championship within the 100-meter sprint with a surprising comeback, has died. She was 32.
Her dying was confirmed in a press release on Wednesday by U.S.A. Monitor and Area, which offered no different particulars.
On the 2016 Olympics, Bowie received a gold medal within 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 received the silver medal within the 100-meter sprint and bronze within the 200-meter.
The USA relay workforce superior to the Olympic ultimate solely after successful an enchantment of a ruling that may have disqualified them, for dropping a baton in a qualifying race.
The American runners have been 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 advance to the finals, the U.S. workforce needed to undergo a uncommon time trial, operating alone on the observe and doing so sooner than the slowest qualifier for the finals.
They did, recording the quickest time that day, and went on to win the gold with Bowie at anchor.
Bowie’s world championship title got here the subsequent yr in London in a dramatic 100-meter race. Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josée Ta Lou sprung into the lead and appeared properly forward of the remainder of the pack. However close to the tip of the race, Bowie accelerated, caught as much as Ta Lou and leaned by way of the end line forward of her, then tumbled to the bottom.
Bowie received one other gold at that world championship, within the 4×100 relay.
She was born on Aug. 27, 1990, in accordance with her web page on the united statesA. Monitor and Area web site. She graduated in 2008 from Pisgah Excessive College in Brandon, Miss.
Bowie went to the College of Southern Mississippi, the place she grew to become the nationwide champion within the lengthy soar in 2011. She graduated in 2012 with a level in interdisciplinary research.
Survivor data was not instantly accessible.
