Tori Bowie

Tori Bowie
Tori Bowie (r.) In Beijing 2015
Full name	Frentorish Bowie
nation	United States
birthday	27th August 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Sand Hill , United States
size	175 cm
Weight	58 kg
Career
discipline	Sprint , long jump
Best performance	100 m: 10.78 s 200 m: 21.77 s 6.95 m
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 1 × World championships 2 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold Rio de Janeiro 2016 4 × 100 m silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 100 m bronze Rio de Janeiro 2016 200 m  World championships bronze Beijing 2015 100 m gold London 2017 100 m gold London 2017 4 × 100 m
last change: October 8, 2019

Frentorish "Tori" Bowie (born August 27, 1990 in Sand Hill ) is an American sprinter and long jumper .

Athletic career

Before Torie Bowie competed in international competitions, the University of Southern Mississippi student was an NCAA college champion and hall champion in the long jump in 2011. She has been a professional athlete since 2013 and her first international championships were the indoor world championships in Sopot , where she was eliminated from the long jump qualification with a width of 6.12 m. In the following year she specialized in the 100-meter run and qualified by winning the national championship title for the World Championships in Beijing , where she won the bronze medal in the final in 10.86 seconds behind the Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Dafne Schippers from the Netherlands won. At the World Indoor Championships in Portland , she finished sixth in the 60-meter run in 7.14 s. For the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro she took part in the 100 meters and won the silver medal behind the Jamaican Elaine Thompson with 10.83 seconds in the final . She then won the bronze medal behind Thompson and Schippers in the 200-meter run with 22.15 s in the final and won the US 4-by-100-meter relay in 41.01 s.

At the 2017 World Championships in London , Bowie won the gold medal in the 100-meter run in 10.85 s in the final ahead of Ivorian Marie-Josée Ta Lou and also won the relay in 41.82 s. After winning the title, she decided not to start over 200 meters. Two years later she reached the semi-finals at the World Championships in Doha over 100 meters , in which she did not start. Then she qualified in the long jump for the final , in which she came fourth with a season best of 6.81 m.

In 2015 and 2017, Bowie was US champion in the 100-meter run and in 2016 over 200 meters.

Personal best

• 100 meters: 10.78 s (+1.0 m / s), July 3, 2016 in Eugene
  • 60 meters (indoor): 7.11s, March 19, 2016, Portland
• 200 meters: 21.77 s (+1.5 m / s), May 27, 2017 in Eugene
• Long jump: 6.91 m (+1.0 m / s), April 6, 2013 in Los Angeles
  • Long jump (indoor): 6.95 m, 25 January 2014 in Naperville

Web links

Commons : Tori Bowie  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tori Bowie in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Tori Bowie in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roy Jordan: Records broken on final day of US Olympic Trials . IAAF. July 11, 2016. Retrieved October 8, 2019.