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  ). 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.
