{{short description|Irish archer, weightlifter and fencer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Hazel Greene-Pereira''' (born 19 January 1960) is an Irish three time archer for Ireland in the Summer Olympic Games,<ref>{{cite web |title=HAZEL GREENE-PEREIRA |url=https://www.olympic.org/hazel-greene-pereira |website=www.olympic.org |accessdate=21 January 2020}}</ref> powerlifter and fencer.
== Early life ==
She was born in Ballingarry and is the youngest of three children. Greene and her family moved to Naas when she was eight. She is a great-niece of Richard Greene. After leaving school in 1978 she took up archery.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
== Archery ==
In 1979 she set five Irish records at the Kildare Open Championships. Greene qualified for the Summer Olympic Games in 1980, 1984 and 1988. She finished nineteenth, twentieth and 38th respectively.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hazel Greene-Pereira |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/hazel-greene-pereira-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418045703/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/hazel-greene-pereira-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |website=www.sports-reference.com/ |accessdate=21 January 2020}}</ref>
== Powerlifting ==
She won in her age group and weight division at the World Association of Benchpress and Deadlifting World Championships in 1997.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Byrne |first1=Peter |title=Greene hits the target in US |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/greene-hits-the-target-in-us-1.135951 |website=www.irishtimes.com |accessdate=21 January 2020}}</ref> She lifted 315 lb (143 kg) setting a WABDL record that lasted for two years.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
== Fencing ==
In 2005 she began fencing and came sixth in the épée in the Veterans age group at the United States Fencing Association National Championships in 2007.<ref>{{cite web |last1=O'Dwyer |first1=Michael |title=Olympic Countdown |url=http://www.tipperaryathletics.com/images/Hazel%20Green.jpg |website=www.tipperaryathletics.com |accessdate=21 January 2020}}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://worldarchery.org/athlete/18251/hazel-greene-pereira Profile on worldarchery.org]
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