Career
He is 175 centimetres tall and weighs 71 kilograms. 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.
Simon went to 5 Olympic Games: 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004.
In 1997 Fairweather gained a degree in jewellery design from the University of South Australia. In 2002, Fairweather was inducted into the Australian Institute of Sport Best of the Best.
Fairweather was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2009. On 1 February 2009, Archery Australia announced the appointment of Fairweather as National Head Coach of Archery in Australia.