Kim Peyton, Olympic Swimming Medalist in 1976, Dies of Tumor

Kim Peyton-McDonald, who won a gold medal in swimming at the 1976 Olympic Games, died Saturday of a brain tumor. She was 29.

She was a member of the gold medal-winning U.S. 400-meter relay team at the Montreal Games and won four events at the 1975 Pan American Games. She won the Bill Hayward Award as Oregon’s top amateur athlete in 1976.

Mrs. Peyton-McDonald, who grew up in Portland, Ore., had lived in San Francisco since 1976.

A graduate of David Douglas High School and a former Stanford swimmer, Mrs. Peyton-McDonald first disclosed in 1979 that she had an inoperable, non-cancerous brain tumor.

Her husband, Drew McDonald, was a member of the gold medal-winning U.S. water polo team in the 1984 Olympic Games.