Education
University of Edinburgh.
University of Edinburgh.
She was nicknamed "The Fife Flyer" during her career. She moved up to been a successful junior runner winning the American Automobile Association"South indoor 60 metres championship, she then added the Junior indoor 400 metres a year later. Still at 16 years old Macdonald went with the British team to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, after setting a British Junior record of 51.16 seconds, which still stands, where she ran in the 400 metres and qualified for the Olympic final where she finished 8th in 52.40 seconds.
She was eliminated in the heats of the Athens European Championships in 1982.
She never bettered her run of 51.16 at 16. Macdonald has degrees in Chemical Engineering and Medicine from Edinburgh University and is a General practitioner in Hong Kong.
She was a member of the 4x400 metre relay team that went on and secured the Olympic bronze medal. She was a member of Pitreavie Amateur Athletic Club, and still holds several club records.