Autopsy Confirms Cause of Death for US Olympian Found Dead at 32
U.S. Olympic champion sprinter Tori Bowie died from complications of childbirth, according to an autopsy report.
Bowie, who won three medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, was found dead last month.
She was 32.
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The report from the office of the medical examiner in Orlando, Florida, said Bowie was estimated to be eight months pregnant.
It said she was found in bed in a “secured residence” with possible complications including respiratory distress and eclampsia.
The autopsy report said “the manner of death is natural.”
According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded in early May to a home in the area “for a well-being check of a woman in her 30s who had not been seen or heard from in several days.”
She was later identified as Frentorish “Tori” Bowie.
The toxicology reports were negative and listed bipolar disorder in her medical history.
Bowie grew up in Mississippi after being taken in by her grandmother as an infant.
She considered herself a basketball player and only reluctantly showed up for track as a teenager, where she blossomed into an elite sprinter and long jumper.
She attended Southern Mississippi, where she swept the long jump NCAA championships at the indoor and outdoor events in 2011.
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At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Bowie won silver in the 100 and bronze in the 200. She then ran the anchor leg on a 4×100 team with Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix and English Gardner to take gold.
A year later, she won the 100 meters at the 2017 world championships in London. She also helped the 4×100 team to gold.
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