Inside Details on Tori Bowie’s Cause of Death; 2017 World Champion Died During Labour

• Torie Bowie died while in active labour, an autopsy report has revealed
• The 2017 World Champion was found dead in her Florida home during a welfare checkup
• The American was eight months pregnant at the time of death

An autopsy report has now revealed that Tori Bowie died due to complications from childbirth. The former Olympic and World Champion was found dead in her home in Florida in May.

Bowie was found by a member of the Sheriff's Department who was responding to a well-being check of a woman who was not seen or heard from for a couple of days.

The police immediately ruled out foul play, with the autopsy report now shedding light on how the 32-year-old lost her life. As the Guardian reports, Bowie was eight months pregnant and in the process of giving birth at her time of death.

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A report from the Orange County Medical Examiner's Office has listed respiratory distress and eclampsia as the possible causes of death. Cleveland Clinic explains eclampsia as when a person develops seizures (convulsions) during pregnancy. Seizures are episodes of shaking, confusion and disorientation caused by abnormal brain activity.

It is not known if her family knew she was pregnant at that time.

Who was Tori Bowie?

Bowie was a three-time Olympic and World medallist. All her Olympic medals came in the 2016 Rio Games, where she won Gold in the 4 x 100m relay, silvers in the 100 metres and bronze in the 200 metres.

She won the world title at the 2017 World Championships in London in the 100 metres and 4 x 100m races to add to the bronze she won in Beijing in 2015.

Fraser-Pryce's story to stardom

That Fraser-Pryce will go down in history as one of the greatest sprinters ever, male or female, is no longer in question.

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As Sports Brief previously reported, the only thing she hasn't been able to do in the women's 100 metres is to break the long-standing record of Florence Griffith-Joyner, which was set in 1988. Flo-Jo used a whopping 10.49 seconds in a 100-metre dash at the U.S Olympic trials, and no one has broken that record more than three decades later. Some will argue it was massively wind-assisted, though.

But Fraser-Pryce has gone ahead to write her own history. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, she grew up in a violence-plagued environment and was raised by a single mother, Maxine Simpson. She started running barefoot while in primary school at the tender age of 10.