Former Wallabies coach Bob Dwyer is recovering in a Sydney hospital after suffering a heart attack.
The 72-year-old reportedly complained of chest pains on Wednesday on his farm at Bowral in the NSW Southern Highlands and was taken to hospital where he suffered a cardiac arrest.
Dwyer, who steered theWallabies to the 1991 Rugby World Cup win, underwent surgery and was shifted to the cardiac unit at Liverpool Hospital to recuperate.
"I'm doing well. I feel fine," Dwyer told Fairfax Media on Thursday.
"I had a cardiac arrest whilst I was in the emergency ward at Bowral Hospital.
"I was on a monitor and had the doctor with me and (then) I had the arrest.
"They gave me the electrical charge straight away and I came straight back.
"Talk about being at the right place at the right time. If it had have happened at home, I would be dead."
After a stint coaching in England in the late 1990s, Dwyer returned to Australia to take charge of the NSW Waratahs and led them to their first Super Rugby semi-final in 2002.
