YOUNG AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR

Simon Fairweather
1991 Award

World Champion Archer

Fairweather trained himself on his uncle's farm at Strathalbyn, South Australia. At the 1991 championship in Poland he became the first Australian to win a world archery title. In 1991 he also won his fifth successive Australian title and the Asian Cup.

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