Tori Bowie, World Champion Sprinter, Is Dead at 32
Tori Bowie, a sprinter who won three medals at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the next year won the world championship in the 100-meter dash with a stunning comeback, has died. She was 32.
Her death was confirmed in a statement on Wednesday by U.S.A. Track and Field, which provided no other details.
At the 2016 Olympics, Bowie won a gold medal in the 4×100 relay, anchoring a team with Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix and English Gardner that finished the race with a time of 41.01. She won the silver medal in the 100-meter dash and bronze in the 200-meter.
The United States relay team advanced to the Olympic final only after winning an appeal of a ruling that would have disqualified them, for dropping a baton in a qualifying race.
The American runners were allowed a rerun after Olympic officials decided that a Brazilian runner had interfered with Felix as she was about to hand off the baton to Gardner. To advance to the finals, the U.S. team had to submit to a rare time trial, running alone on the track and doing so faster than the slowest qualifier for the finals.
They did, recording the fastest time that day, and went on to win the gold with Bowie at anchor.
Bowie’s world championship title came the next year in London in a dramatic 100-meter race. Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josée Ta Lou sprung into the lead and seemed well ahead of the rest of the pack. But near the end of the race, Bowie accelerated, caught up to Ta Lou and leaned through the finish line ahead of her, then tumbled to the ground.
Bowie won another gold at that world championship, in the 4×100 relay.
She was born on Aug. 27, 1990, according to her page on the U.S.A. Track and Field website. She graduated in 2008 from Pisgah High School in Brandon, Miss.
Bowie went to the University of Southern Mississippi, where she became the national champion in the long jump in 2011. She graduated in 2012 with a degree in interdisciplinary studies.
Survivor information was not immediately available.
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By: Daniel E. Slotnik
Title: Tori Bowie, World Champion Sprinter, Is Dead at 32
Sourced From: www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/sports/olympics/tori-bowie-dead.html
Published Date: Wed, 03 May 2023 17:27:36 +0000
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It’s been nearly two decades since South Africa last stood atop the podium at African Championships, with the program seeing tons of individual successes in recent years, but they’ve typically come up short against the Egyptians, who won the gold by 3.5 points to qualify a full team to worlds in 2022. But competing at home in Pretoria, the South Africans put on an incredible performance, led by last year’s continental champion and 2020 Olympian Caitlin Rooskrantz, who earned a 50.632 to win silver in the all-around, while her teammate and fellow Olympian Naveen Daries was just off the podium in fourth with a 49.533.
Egypt also had some strong individual performances here, including from Jana Abdelsalam, who won bronze in the all-around for the second year in a row, and Sandra Elsadek, who just wrapped up her NCAA career following four standout years at Ball State before transferring to Georgia for a fifth year, where she contributed regularly on vault and floor. The team lacked some of the experience we’re used to seeing, with both Elsadek and Nada Awad new to international competition, while veterans like Nancy Taman and Jana Mahmoud were limited to a couple of events apiece. Overall, their strength was comparable to last year’s, but with a few key routines missing here and there, they were unable to hold fight off the South Africans, who looked better than ever.
It was also a “better than ever” year for Algeria, led by newcomer Nemour, who was able to single-handedly add close to 10 points more than any other gymnasts in the country’s roster. Last year, the team notched a 30.733 on bars, with an 11.0 the highest, but this year they made it up to 34.765, thanks in very large part to Nemour’s 15.066. The routine earned a 6.9 D score, down two tenths from the intended 7.1 with Nemour not getting credit for the Derwael-Fenton, but it was stunning from start to finish, and with hits on vault (12.966), beam (13.533), and floor (12.166), she was easily able to take the all-around title with a 53.731.
Nemour and her teammate Lahna Salem, who finished eighth all-around with a 45.399, earned two of the four individual spots for worlds, while Abdelsalam and Elsadek of Egypt picked up the other two.
The Egyptian men had absolutely no problem repeating as champions here, winning the team gold with a 241.028, more than 10 points ahead of Algeria in the silver medal position, while Morocco took the bronze.
2020 Olympian Omar Mohamed led the team and won the all-around gold with an 82.131, ahead of teammate Mohamed Afify with a 77.030 for silver, while Hillal Metidji of Algeria won the bronze with a 77.030. Only two all-around spots were available for the men in the African continent, which went to Metidji and Hamza Hossaini of Morocco, fourth with a 76.765.
Other nations competing at this year’s African Championships included Cameroon, Mali, Senegal, and Angola.
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By: Lauren
Title: South African Women Upset Egypt to Earn Worlds Berth While Egyptian Men Stay On Top
Sourced From: thegymter.net/2023/05/28/south-african-women-upset-egypt-to-earn-worlds-berth-while-egyptian-men-stay-on-top/
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