Hazel Greene Pereira

Hazel Greene played hockey and basketball in school, only taking up archery at 18-years-old. She progressed rapidly and entered her first international competition in Brussels only one year later, playing eighth. At the 1979 Kildare Open Championships she set five Irish records. She eventually competed for Ireland in three Olympics – 1980, 1984, 1988, although she lived in Lisbon, Portugal at the time of her last Olympics. She then moved to New York, where she has lived since, and where she took up powerlifting. In 1997 she represented Ireland at the WABDL (World Association of Benchpress and Deadlifting) World Championships, taking first place in her age and weight division, and setting a new WABDL record with a deadlift of 315 lbs. (143 kg). She took up fencing in the 2000s and in 2007 placed sixth in épée at the US Fencing Championships in the veterans’ age group. Hazel Greene works as a personal fitness trainer in New York.