<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nAccording to the report from Orange County Medical Examiner Office, Bowie was eight months pregnant and in the process of giving birth when she died. It is unclear if friends or family knew she was pregnant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The report says possible causes of death included respiratory distress and eclampsia. Eclampsia is a rare complication of pre-eclampsia and can cause seizures and strokes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Broadcaster BET responded to the autopsy by highlighting the difficulties Black women in America face during pregnancy. US-born Black women experience far higher rates of pre-eclampsia than those from other backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBlack women die at exceedingly higher rates due to pregnancy-related complications,\u201d BET wrote on its Twitter account. \u201cWe face a much higher risk of maternal death due to various reasons including chronic stress and implicit bias from health care providers. There is so much work to be done to properly protect and advocate for Black women\u2019s health.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bowie won three gold medals on the global stage for the US. 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
Bowie was born and raised in Mississippi. She played basketball as a girl before her talent on the track became apparent: she won 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.<\/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. According to her obituary she had been studying music at Full Sail University prior to her death, and had also worked with underpriviliged children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI wish you could feel how much respect I have for Tori Bowie,\u201d her USA teammate, English Gardner, told the Guardian after Bowie\u2019s death. \u201cI wish you could feel how amazing of a competitor she was.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The former Olympic and world champion sprinter Tori Bowie died in her home due to complications from childbirth, according to an autopsy report obtained by USA Today Sports. The 32-year-old was found dead at her home in Orlando, Florida, in May after the local sheriff\u2019s department attended \u201ca well-being check of a woman \u2026 who […]<\/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":[80,54,3295],"tags":[10762,10221,6734,2784,6682,6573,4321,9214,287,2808,6083,7234,10505,5241,7712,5455,746,5321,6225,5918,12634,5459,3684,9772,5058,11385,10222,1707,6332,6406,9325,2451,10214,12337,5807,9993,9992,10304,5350,214,6348,10885,5273,5320,10415,36,11771,7560,594],"class_list":["post-35129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-obituary","category-world-sport","tag-athletics","tag-autopsy","tag-basketball","tag-bet","tag-birth","tag-black","tag-broadcaster","tag-child","tag-children","tag-daughter","tag-dead","tag-death","tag-die","tag-died","tag-english","tag-family","tag-feel","tag-florida","tag-friends","tag-gold","tag-health","tag-ivory-coast","tag-london","tag-mississippi","tag-music","tag-olympic","tag-olympic-champion","tag-olympics","tag-online","tag-orange-county","tag-pregnancy","tag-pregnant","tag-rates","tag-rio","tag-risk","tag-sprinter","tag-tori-bowie","tag-trees","tag-twitter","tag-university","tag-us","tag-victory","tag-woman","tag-women","tag-work","tag-world","tag-world-athletics","tag-world-champion","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35129","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=35129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35129\/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=35129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"English](\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/49530684aa64d4567062c199dd1eea7be4b15f16\/0_141_5376_3228\/master\/5376.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=80e1ef60466804b7862eff9aa648580e\")
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n