Bowie was estimated to be eight months pregnant and showing signs of undergoing labor when she was discovered dead on May 2, the report from the medical examiner's office said.
Dr. Kameelah Phillips discusses Olympian Tori Bowie's death after an autopsy revealed she died of "complications" of childbirth.U.S. Olympic champion sprinter Tori Bowie died from complications of childbirth, according to an autopsy report.The report from the office of the medical examiner in Orlando, Florida, said Bowie was estimated to be eight months pregnant and showing signs of undergoing labor when she was discovered dead on May 2.
According to the Orange County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded in early May to a home in the area "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 identified as Frentorish "Tori" Bowie. Bowie grew up in Mississippi after being taken in by her grandmother as an infant. She considered herself a basketball player and only reluctantly showed up for track as a teenager, where she blossomed into an elite sprinter and long jumper. She attended Southern Mississippi, where she swept the long jump NCAA championships at the indoor and outdoor events in 2011.
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