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

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Olympic champion sprinter Tori Bowie died from issues of childbirth, based on 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 displaying 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 potential issues together with respiratory misery and eclampsia. The post-mortem report mentioned “the manner of death is natural.”

Black girls have the very best maternal mortality price within the United States — 69.9 per 100,000 stay births for 2021, virtually thrice the speed for white girls, based on 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 detrimental 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 of herself a basketball participant and solely reluctantly confirmed up for monitor as a teen, the place she blossomed into an elite sprinter and lengthy jumper. She attended Southern Mississippi, the place she swept the lengthy bounce 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 group with Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix and English Gardner to take gold.