[6][7] In what was likely her most publicized single performance, at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she won a silver medal in the women's 400-meter freestyle event bettering the former world record with a time of 5:28.6.

In a very tight race, Madison, who set the new world record touched only a tenth of a second ahead of silver medalist Kight.

[9] On September 4, 1935, she eloped and married in Wellsburg, West Virginia, then moved to Cincinnati with Wingard, a former graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, who had a career as a physical education instructor, teacher, and high school principal.

[3] Due to her move to Cincinnati, Kight-Wingard left the Carnegie Library Athletic Club, and named her husband Cleon Wingard as her new manager.

[4][12][7][13] Kight-Wingard won the prestigious James E. Sullivan Award, given to "the most outstanding athlete at the collegiate or Olympic level in the United States", and in 1981 was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale.

[10][7][12][6] A resident of College Hill, Kight died at the age of 88 after a long bout with Alzheimer's disease on February 9, 2000, at Mercy Franciscan Hospital-Mount Airy Campus in Cincinnati, Ohio.