Hazel Greene

Hazel Greene, also written Hazel Greene-Pereira, is an Irish archer born on 19 January 1960 who competed three times for Ireland at the Summer Olympic Games. Born in Ballingarry, the youngest of three children, she moved with her family to Naas at the age of eight and took up archery after leaving school in 1978. In 1979 she set five Irish records at the Kildare Open Championships, and she qualified for the Olympics in 1980, 1984 and 1988, finishing nineteenth, twentieth and thirty-eighth. She also competed in other disciplines. In powerlifting she won her age group and weight division at the World Association of Benchpress and Deadlifting World Championships in 1997 with a lift of 143 kilograms, a record that stood for two years, and from 2005 she took up fencing, placing sixth in the veterans epee at the United States Fencing Association national championships in 2007.