<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nBowie was found dead at her home in Florida. A cause of death has not been released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The American won three gold medals on the global stage. Her first came as part of the USA 4x100m relay team at the 2016 Olympics. 2017 was even more successful: she added another relay gold at the World Athletics Championships in London and won individual gold in the 100m, beating Ivory Coast\u2019s Marie-Jos\u00e9e Ta Lou in a photo finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI had no idea. All I knew was I wanted to give it everything I\u2019ve got,\u201d Bowie said after her victory. \u201cAm I really world champion?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She won two other Olympics medals: a silver and bronze in the 100m and 200m respectively in Rio in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bowie was born and raised in Mississippi. She played basketball as a girl before her talent on the track became apparent after winning state titles in the 100m, 200m and long jump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI remember just racing everywhere as a child, like in the trees, wherever … I raced all the time,\u201d she told the Guardian in 2017.Tori Bowie wins women’s 100m final at World Athletics Championships \u2013 video highlights<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She enjoyed more success at college after winning an athletic scholarship to the University of Southern Mississippi, where she won national titles in 2011 in indoor and outdoor long jump. She concentrated on that discipline after graduation before her explosive speed persuaded her to focus on sprinting in 2014. Bowie returned to the long jump in 2019, finishing fourth at the world championships. She did not attempt to qualify for the US team at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bowie was known for her humility on the circuit. She was raised by her grandmother in the town of Sand Hill, which had fewer than 100 people, but her talent propelled her to the global stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOne day I hope that I can come to Sand Hill and there\u2019s this huge sign that says, \u2018Welcome to Sand Hill, home of Tori Bowie,\u2019\u201d she said in 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The former Olympic and world champion sprinter Tori Bowie has died at the age of 32, her management company confirmed on Wednesday. \u201cMy heart breaks for the family of Tori Bowie,\u201d wrote the three-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce on Twitter. \u201cA great competitor and source of light. Your energy and smile will always be with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":32636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[9951,10762,6734,9214,6083,7234,5241,10205,13076,5494,5455,5321,7510,5918,5459,3684,9772,11385,10222,1707,11973,5396,12337,10157,9993,9030,1705,9992,10304,5350,214,6348,10885,8033,3954,5320,36,11771,7560],"class_list":["post-32635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-age","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-child","tag-dead","tag-death","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-discipline","tag-energy","tag-family","tag-florida","tag-fraser-pryce","tag-gold","tag-ivory-coast","tag-london","tag-mississippi","tag-olympic","tag-olympic-champion","tag-olympics","tag-one","tag-peace","tag-rio","tag-scholarship","tag-sprinter","tag-success","tag-tokyo","tag-tori-bowie","tag-trees","tag-twitter","tag-university","tag-us","tag-victory","tag-video","tag-will","tag-women","tag-world","tag-world-athletics","tag-world-champion"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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