Kim Marie Peyton McDonald (January 26, 1957 – December 13, 1986) was a competitive freestyle swimmer from Portland, Oregon in the 1970s and a Gold medalist for the United States at the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics. She was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1989, three years after her death from a brain tumor.
Youth and high school
Peyton set three national swimming records when she was only 9 and 10 years old.[1] She swam for the David Douglas High School Swim Club in Portland, Oregon where she held numerous Oregon State Girls 4A swim records including 200-Yard Medley Relay (1974,1975,1976); 200-Yard Freestyle (1972,1974,1975); 50-Yard Freestyle (1971); 100-Yard Freestyle (1972,1974); 500-Yard Freestyle (1975); 200-Yard Freestyle Relay (1971, 1972); 400-Yard Freestyle Relay (1974, 1975); 400-Yard Freestyle (1971).[2]
Oregon Girls Swimming Title
Peyton was to break her own Oregon 400m 17-18 Girls Freestyle record on August 1, 1974. This record time of 4:20.35 was to stand until July 26, 1997 when Lauren Thies set a new time of 4:15.97.[3]
Pan American Games
She participated in two Pan American Games: in the 1971 Cali, Colombia games and in 1975 Mexico City. In 1971, she won a gold medal in the 200m freestyle; in 1975, she won four gold medals: in the 100m freestyle,[4] the 200m freestyle, the 4x100m freestyle relay, and the 4x100m medley relay.[5] She was chosen as was the United States' flag bearer at the closing ceremonies of the 1975 games.[6]
Olympics
Peyton represented the United States at the 1972 Summer Olympics as a backup swimmer.[1] In the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics, she won a gold medal in the 4 x 100m freestyle relay event along with teammates Jill Sterkel, Shirley Babashoff, and Wendy Boglioli, setting a new world record with a time of 3:44.82. This record would stand until August 26, 1978 when another United States swim team of Cynthia Woodhead, Jill Sterkel, Stephanie Elkinsm and Tracy Caulkins broke it with a time of 3:43.43 in West Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany[7].
Peyton was one of only two people from Oregon to win a medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. The other was Mac M. Wilkins who won a Gold in Discus that year.[8]
Stanford University
She swam collegiately for Stanford University, where she met her husband Drew McDonald, who won a silver medal as a member of the 1984 United States Olympic water polo team.[9]
Oregon Sports Hall of Fame
McDonald-Peyton was honored in 1975 with the Bill Hayward Johnny Carpenter Prep athlete of the year award as the Outstanding Amateur Athlete in Oregon.[10] In 1989 McDonald-Peyton was inducted posthumously into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame.[1][11]
Death
Peyton-McDonald died on December 13, 1986 at the age of 29 as a result of an inoperable brain tumor that she first disclosed to the public in 1979.[12]
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Olympic Champions in Women's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay |
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1912: GBR (Moore, Fletcher, Speirs, Steer) · 1920: USA (Woodridge, Schroth, Guest, Bleibtrey) · 1924: USA (Donnelly, Ederle, Lackie, Wehselau) · 1928: USA (Lambert, Osipowich, Saville, Norelius) · 1932: USA (Helen Johns, Saville, McKim, Madison) · 1936: NED (Selbach, Wagner, den Ouden, Mastenbroek) · 1948: USA (Corridon, Kalama, Helser, Curtis) · 1952: HUN (Novák, Temes, Novák, Szőke) · 1956: AUS (Fraser, Leech, Morgan, Crapp) · 1960: USA (Spillane, Stobs, Wood, von Saltza) · 1964: USA (Stouder, de Varona, Watson, Ellis) · 1968: USA (Barkman, Gustavson, Pedersen, Henne) · 1972: USA (Babashoff, Barkman, Kemp, Neilson) · 1976: USA (Peyton. Sterkel, Babashoff, Boglioli) · 1980: GDR (Krause, Metschuck, Diers, Hülsenbeck) · 1984: USA (Johnson, Steinseifer, Torres, Hogshead) · 1988: GDR (Otto, Meißner, Hunger, Manuela Stellmach) · 1992: USA (Haislett, Martino, Thompson, Torres) · 1996: USA (Martino, Van Dyken, Fox, Thompson) · 2000: USA (Van Dyken, Shealy, Thompson, Torres) · 2004: AUS (Mills, Lenton, Thomas, Henry) · 2008: NED (Dekker, Kromowidjojo, Heemskerk, Veldhuis)
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Pan American Champions in Women's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay |
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1951: United States (Green, Geary, LaVine, Mullen) • 1955: United States (Werner, Green, Kluter, Roberts) • 1959: United States (Botkin, Spillane, Stobs, Von Saltza) • 1963: United States (De Varona, Stouder, McCleary, Norton) • 1967: United States (Fordyce, Carpinelli, Gustavson, Kruse) • 1971: United States (Neilson, Fordyce, McKitrick, Skrifvars) • 1975: United States (Heddy, Brown, Sterkel, Peyton) • 1979: United States (Elkins, Caulkins, Sterkel, Woodhead) • 1983: United States (Sterkel, Torres, Wayte, Steinseifer) • 1987: United States (Coffin, Thompson, Linke, Steinseifer) • 1991: United States (Oesting, Buckovich, Jacob, Tappin) • 1995: United States (Martino, Van Dyken, Farella, Teuscher) • 1999: Canada (Deglau, Limpert, Evanetz, Nicholls) • 2003: United States (Weir, Swindle, Lanne, Shealy) • 2007: United States (Smit, Woodward, Kukors, Correia)
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Pan American Champions in Women's 4×100 m Medley Relay |
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1951: United States (Geary, Pence, O'Brien) • 1955: United States (O'Connor, Sears, Mullen, Werner) • 1959: United States (Cone, Brancroft, Collins, Von Saltza) • 1963: United States (Duenkel, Goyette, Stouder, De Varona) • 1967: United States (Moore, Ball, Daniel, Fordyce) • 1971: Canada • 1975: United States (Bonne, Morey, Wright, Peyton) • 1979: United States (Jezek, Caulkins, Sterkel, Woodhead) • 1983: United States (Walsh, Rhodenbaugh, Lehner, Steinseifer) • 1987: United States (Green, Heisick, Jorgensen, Linke) • 1991: United States (Wilson, Tierney, Wester-Krieg, Tappin) • 1995: United States (Bedford, King Bednar, Van Dyken, Martino) • 1999: United States (Knapp, Stitts, Campbell, Spatz) • 2003: United States (MacManus, Stitts, Vollmer, Weir) • 2007: United States (Smit, McKeehan, Hersey, Correia)
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