the American Tori BowieOlympic runner-up in the 100 m in 2016 and world champion in 2017, passed away at the age of 32their representative agency and World Athletics announced this Wednesday.
“We have lost a client, a dear friend, a daughter and a sister. Tori was a champion and a ray of sunshine,” her agency Icon Sport Management wrote on social media, without providing details on the causes of her death.
Bowie has built an excellent record, winning three Olympic medals for the first time in 2016 in Rio, with gold in the 4x100m relay, silver in the 100m behind Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah and bronze in the 200m.
She then became 100m world champion in 2017 in London, where she also won the 4x100m relay.
In 2022 he had only competed in one official competition, the 200 m in Florida.
The Mississippi sprinter had a personal best of 10 seconds and 78 cents in the 100 meters.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica, the reigning 100m world champion, tweeted after hearing the news: “I am heartbroken for Tori Bowie’s family. A great competitor and a source of light. Your energy and Your smile will always be with me. Rest in peace.
Source: AFP
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