American Tori Bowie, Olympic vice-champion in the 100m in 2016 and world champion in 2017, has died at 32, announced Wednesday her sports representation agency and World Athletics. "We lost a client, a dear friend, a daughter and a sister. Tori was a champion and a real ray of sunshine, "writes her agency Icon Sport Management, without providing details on the circumstances of the death.

Bowie had built a stellar track record, first winning three Olympic medals in Rio in 2016 with gold in the 4x100m relay, silver in the 100m behind Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah, and bronze in the 200m. She then became world champion in the straight line in 2017 in London, where she also won the title in the 4x100m relay.


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After a last blow of brilliance in 2019 at the World Championships in Doha (4th in the long jump), the Mississippi sprinter (personal best of 10''78 on 100m) has never been able to find her best level.

"My heart breaks thinking of Tori Bowie's family, a beautiful rival and a solar person. Your energy and your smile will be with me forever," Jamaican sprint legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, a two-time Olympic 100m champion, wrote on her social networks.

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