He is 175 centimetres (5 ft 9 in) tall and weighs 71 kilograms (157 lb).

Fairweather won the individual gold medal at the World Championships in Poland 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.

In 1997, Fairweather gained a degree in jewellery design from the University of South Australia.

[2] Fairweather was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2009.