Kim MacDonald from Ennerdale is a familiar face in the T64 division at the annual Toyota SASAPD National Championships having represented Gauteng Province in the 100m, 200m, and long jump events since 2015.

Kim was born with an underdeveloped left foot that had only two toes, as well as a hearing impairment due to a condition known as phocomelia. As she grew taller, the orthopaedic shoe meant to balance her left leg with the right became bigger and heavier, making independent mobility increasingly difficult.

At 11 years of age, she underwent a below-knee amputation and transferred to Hope School in Westcliff, Johannesburg, where she met Johan Snyders, the founder of the Jumping Kids Prosthetic Fund. She became a beneficiary of Jumping Kids that same year (2013) and has been supported by the charity ever since.

Now a student-athlete at the University of Johannesburg, Kim set her first SA record in the Girls under-17 T44 Long Jump (2.43m) as far back as 2016. In 2017, she won Women under-20 T44 100m bronze for South Africa at the 2017 International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) World Games in Vila Real de Santo Antonio, Portugal.

At the 2021 edition of the Toyota SASAPD National Championships, Kim continued to impress by setting national marks in both the Women under-20 T64 Long Jump (2,84m) and in the Women under-20 T64 200m final (40.26) in Gqeberha.

Last year, at the 2024 edition of the Toyota SASAPD National Championships in Bloemfontein, Kim won gold for Gauteng in the Senior Women’s 100m T64 race (17.04) and silver (3.15m) in the Long Jump.

More recently, Kim leapt to a new Long Jump PB (3.67m) at the Central Athletics Gauteng Summer Challenge in November 2024, and added 100m and Long Jump silver at the 2025 Winelands International Para Athletics Competition in Stellenbosch.

She is considered to be a valuable role model and ambassador for Jumping Kids.