Simon Fairweather

Simon Fairweather is an Australian archer, born on 9 October 1969 in Adelaide, South Australia. He won the individual title at the 1991 World Championships in Poland and was named Young Australian of the Year the same year. After an early Olympic career in which he was generally thought not to have lived up to his promise, he won the men's individual gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, a result that captured national attention in Australia. He went on to compete at five Olympic Games, from 1988 to 2004, and won many Australian titles over some twenty years. He gained a degree in jewellery design in 1997, was inducted into the Australian Institute of Sport Best of the Best in 2002 and the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2009, and in 2009 became Archery Australia's national head coach.