Hazel Greene
{{short description|Irish archer, weightlifter and fencer}}
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Hazel Greene-Pereira (born 19 January 1960) is an Irish three time archer for Ireland in the Summer Olympic Games,{{cite web |title=HAZEL GREENE-PEREIRA |url=https://www.olympic.org/hazel-greene-pereira |website=www.olympic.org |accessdate=21 January 2020}} 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.{{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}}
Powerlifting
She won in her age group and weight division at the World Association of Benchpress and Deadlifting World Championships in 1997.{{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}} 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.{{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}}
References
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External links
- [https://worldarchery.org/athlete/18251/hazel-greene-pereira Profile on worldarchery.org]
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Category:Olympic archers for Ireland
Category:Archers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Category:Archers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Category:Archers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Category:Irish female épée fencers
Category:People from Ballingarry, South Tipperary
Category:Sportspeople from County Tipperary
Category:20th-century Irish sportswomen
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