- Simon Fairweather
Simon John Fairweather, OAM (born 9 October 1969) is an archer born in
Adelaide , South Australia. He is 175 centimetres tall and weighs 71 kilograms.Fairweather won the individual
gold medal at the World Championships in Poland in 1991.Fairweather was declared the
Young Australian of the Year in 1991.After an early Olympic career in which he was generally considered not to have lived up to his promise, Fairweather shot back into Australia's national consciousness, "stopping the nation" with his gold medal performance in men's individual archery at the
2000 Summer Olympics . He was also a member of the Australian team which finished twelfth in the team competition.Simon went to 5 Olympic Games: 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004. He has won countless Australia titles over a 20 year period.
In 1997 Fairweather gained a degree in jewellery design from the
University of South Australia . He currently works as sculptor and jeweller.Fairweather is married to former
triathlon world champion Jackie Gallagher.ف=External links=
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