{"id":637363,"date":"2026-10-21T22:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/637363\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T22:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:14:11","slug":"south-africa-rugby-player-hyron-andrews-died-of-aortic-dissection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/637363\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa rugby player Hyron Andrews died of &#8216;aortic dissection&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Despite the tragedy, the Lions played their debut Champions Cup match, losing 31-14 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The match was marked by a minute\u2019s silence during which all the players and substitutes lined up in front of a Lions jersey bearing Andrews\u2019 number 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">A spontaneous wave of applause in his memory also swept through the Marcel Deflandre Stadium in the fifth minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Andrews had only returned to his native South Africa earlier this year after a two-year spell with English Prem side Sale Sharks. He began his career with the Sharks franchise in Durban and represented his country at Under-20 level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The Lions said that Andrews\u2019 body was still in France and that the \u201ctimeline for the return of Hyron\u2019s body to South Africa has not yet been determined\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the tragedy, the Lions played their debut Champions Cup match, losing 31-14 on Sunday. The match was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[190,10466,3017,62032,139402,170245,31100,690,6179,43836,1874,1221,13687,42,6735,310154,52169,48053,10543,43,1118,9617,6327,3048,1240,4412,256805,40,38,41,39,1680],"class_list":["post-637363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-african","tag-ahead","tag-andrews","tag-aorta","tag-aortic","tag-champions","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-dissection","tag-found","tag-france","tag-franchise","tag-headlines","tag-hotel","tag-hyron","tag-lions","tag-lock","tag-match","tag-news","tag-of","tag-player","tag-rugby","tag-said","tag-south","tag-teams","tag-tear","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}