Charles Eugster
The details
Biography
Introduction
Dr. Charles Marin Eugster (26 July 1919 - 27 April 2017) was a track and field sprint athlete who competed as a Masters athlete for Great Britain.
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,” he says, simply, “and I didn’t like what I saw.”
He won more than 100 fitness awards in multiple sports, including bodybuilding and rowing. He won multiple medals at the World Masters Regatta.
He died on 27 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".