Janet Penn is an American Paralympic skier, specialized in para-alpine skiing and para-Nordic skiing. She represented the United States at the 1980 Winter Paralympics, 1984 Winter Paralympics, and 1988 Winter Paralympics. She won three medals in alpine skiing: a gold medal and two bronze medals.[1]
At the 1980 Winter Paralympics, in Geilo, Penn won bronze in alpine skiing, the 2A giant slalom race; she placed her third with the time of 2:46.91, behind the Canadians Lana Spreeman with 2: 39.60 and Lorna Manzer in 2: 46.88.[2]
Four years later, at the 1980 Winter Paralympics, in Innsbruck, Penn took the gold medal in the slalom LW4 with a time of 1:30.00, (silver for Reinhild Möller in 1: 43.55 and bronze for Elisabeth Zerobin in 1: 43.99 ).[3] Penn was third in the LW4 giant slalom race, with 1:45.85, behind German Reinhild Möller with 1: 36.24 and Canadian Lana Spreeman with 1: 39.18.[4]
She also competed in Paralympic Nordic skiing at the 1988 Winter Paralympics in Innsbruck, without reaching the podium. She finished 4th in the 5 km short-distance race LW3 / 4/9 (behind the Canadian Francine Lemire , the German Anneliese Tenzler and the Swiss Monika Waelti ),[5] and 5th place over the long distance 10 km LW3 / 4 / 9 (in front of her Francine Lemire, Anneliese Tenzler, Monika Waelti and the Austrian Gisela Danzl ) .[6]