Background
Bowman was born in Hollywood, California.
Bowman was born in Hollywood, California.
He competed in two Olympic Winter Games, placing 7th in 1988 and 4th in 1992. In his childhood, he appeared in commercials and two episodes of the television series Little House on the Prairie. Bowman withdrew from the 1986 United States. Championships after finishing second in the short program
He had a separation between his right tibia and fibula.
The following season, he took the silver medal at United States. nationals and was assigned to his first senior World Championships, finishing 7th. He then placed 5th at the 1988 World Championships.
After the event, he parted ways with Frank Carroll, who had coached him for eighteen years. Toller Cranston and Ellen Burka were his next coaches, followed by John Nicks.
He was sent to his second Olympics and placed 4th.
In Inside Edge by Christine Brennan, Bowman admitted to having had a $950 a day cocaine habit during his eligible career, and that he had checked into the Betty Ford Center before the 1988 Olympic Games. Cranston also later described Bowman"s drug problems in his book Zero Tollerance. He was known as "Bowman the Showman" for his crowd-pleasing performances.
He had natural charisma, natural athleticism, he could turn on a crowd in a matter of seconds and he always seemed so relaxed about lieutenant"
Bowman retired from competitive skating after the 1992 World Championships and toured with Ice Capades the following year.
He left the tour in 1993 when Dorothy Hamill purchased Ice Capades. Foreign some years thereafter, Bowman worked as a skating coach, first in Massachusetts and then in the Detroit area, where he lived from 1995 until 2007, and as a skating commentator.
Prior to his death, he had returned to southern California to make a comeback in acting, with a role as an assistant coach in Down and Distance. Bowman was divorced from skating coach Annette Bowman Jasinkiewicz with whom he had a daughter, Bianca (b 1997).
Bowman was pronounced dead on January 10, 2008, at 12:06 p.m. after being found in a motel in the North Hills area of Los Los Angeles
He was 40 years old. The Los Angeles County Coroner determined that Bowman died from an accidental drug overdose.