Olympic sprinter Tori Bowie died from problems of childbirth, post-mortem report concludes

US Olympic champion sprinter Tori Bowie died from problems of childbirth, in accordance with an post-mortem report.

Bowie, who gained three medals on the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, was discovered useless final month. She was 32.

The report from the workplace of the health worker in Orlando, Florida, mentioned Bowie was estimated to be eight months pregnant and exhibiting indicators of present process labor when she was found useless on May 2. It mentioned she was present in mattress in a “secured residence” with doable problems together with respiratory misery and eclampsia. The post-mortem report mentioned “the manner of death is natural.”

Black girls have the best maternal mortality charge within the United States — 69.9 per 1,00,000 dwell births for 2021, nearly thrice the speed for white girls, in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded in early May to a house within the space “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 recognized as Frentorish “Tori” Bowie.

The toxicology outcomes had been unfavorable and the post-mortem report listed bipolar dysfunction in her medical historical past.

Bowie grew up in Mississippi after being taken in by her grandmother as an toddler. She thought-about herself a basketball participant and solely reluctantly confirmed up for observe as an adolescent, the place she blossomed into an elite sprinter and lengthy jumper. She attended Southern Mississippi, the place she swept the lengthy leap NCAA championships on the indoor and outside occasions in 2011.

At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Bowie gained silver within the 100 and bronze within the 200. She then ran the anchor leg on a 4×100 staff with Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix and English Gardner to take gold.

A 12 months later, she gained the 100 meters on the 2017 world championships in London. She additionally helped the 4×100 staff to gold.