US track and field star Tori Bowie dead at 32

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American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist Tori Bowie has died at the age of 32.

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Bowie, raised by her grandmother in rural Mississippi, converted from the long jump to the sprints in 2014 and was the world’s fastest woman in the 100m that year.

At the 2016 Rio Olympics, she won 100m silver and 200m bronze and anchored the U.S. 4x100m relay to gold.

Then in 2017, she won the 100m at the world championships. Bowie remains the lone American woman to win an Olympic or world 100m title since Carmelita Jeter in 2011.

Bowie then re-added the long jump, placing fourth at the 2019 Worlds in her last major competition.

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