Charles Eugster


Charles Marin Eugster was a British-Swiss dentist and track and field and sprint athlete who competed as a masters athlete. After spending a career as a dentist, he moved to Uitikon, Switzerland, on his pension. At age 85, he began a fitness program. "I looked in the mirror one morning, and I didn't like what I saw."
Eugster was born in London in 1919, to Swiss parents. He won more than 100 fitness awards in multiple sports, including bodybuilding and rowing. He won multiple medals at the World Masters Regatta.
Eugster died on 26 April 2017, of complications following heart failure.

Notable achievements

He was invited to do a talk at TEDx in Zurich in 2012, and gave a talk titled "Why bodybuilding at age 93 is a great idea".