Kim Peyton-McDonald, who won a gold medal...
Kim Peyton-McDonald, who won a gold medal in swimming at the 1976 Olympic Games, died of a brain tumor Saturday at Stanford University Medical Center. 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.
Peyton-McDonald first disclosed that she had an inoperable, non-cancerous brain tumor in 1979.
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