{"id":453496,"date":"2026-02-02T11:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453496\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:27:12","slug":"former-geelong-captain-suffers-heart-attack-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453496\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Geelong captain suffers heart attack &#8211; AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/games-centre\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"305\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" style=\"float:right;\" class=\"play-games-banner\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ZeroHanger_GamesCentre.png.webp.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Geelong captain Mark Bairstow is in a stable condition after suffering a heart attack on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old was at the Bunbury Races, ensuring help was nearby, before he was transported to Bunbury Regional Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He was revived on two separate occasions requiring a defibrillator.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bairstow&#8217;s son, Dylan, won race 4, which the 162-game former Cat was celebrating at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Bairstow captained Geelong for three seasons and was thrice named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/teams\/all-australian\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Australian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 1986 Sandover Medallist is also a member of the Western Australian football hall of fame, having been drafted as a 24-year-old out of South Fremantle.<\/p>\n<p>He has been battling ongoing heart issues.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Former Geelong captain Mark Bairstow is in a stable condition after suffering a heart attack on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-453496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}