Charles Eugster

{{Short description|UK-born Swiss masters sportsperson (1919–2017)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

|name = Charles Eugster

|image =

|birth_name = Charles Marin Eugster

|citizenship = United Kingdom, Switzerland

|birth_date = {{birth date|1919|07|26|df=y}}

|birth_place = London, UK

|death_date = {{death date and age|2017|04|26|1919|07|26|df=y}}

|death_place = London, England

|alma_mater = University of Zurich

|occupation = Athlete, Dentist

|show-medals = yes

|medaltemplates =

{{MedalSport|Men's athletics}}

{{MedalCountry|{{GBR}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|{{nowrap|World Masters Athletics Championships (M95)}}}}

{{MedalGold|2015 Lyon|100 m}}

{{MedalGold|2015 Lyon|200 m}}

{{MedalCompetition|{{nowrap|European Masters Indoor Championships (M95)}}}}

{{MedalGold|2015 Torun|60m}}

{{MedalGold|2015 Torun|200m}}

{{MedalGold|2016 Ancona|60m}}

}}

Charles Marin Eugster {{post nominals|country=GBR|FRSM}} (26 July 1919 – 26 April 2017) was a UK-born Swiss track and field and sprint athlete and former dentist. 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."{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/elder/9891143/Charles-Eugster-Its-pure-vanity.-My-body-was-a-mess.html|title=Charles Eugster: 'It's pure vanity. My body was a mess'|date=24 February 2013 |publisher=}}

Eugster was born in London in 1919 to Swiss parents. He won more than 100 fitness awards in multiple sports, including bodybuilding and rowing.{{cite web|url=http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/lessons-from-a-95-year-old-bodybuilder.html|title=Lessons From A 95-Year-Old Bodybuilder|date=27 May 2015|publisher=}} He won multiple medals at the World Masters Regatta.{{cite web|url=http://thamesrc.co.uk/news/2013-world-rowing-masters-results/|title=2013 World Rowing Masters Results - Thames Rowing Club|publisher=|access-date=19 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221091020/http://thamesrc.co.uk/news/2013-world-rowing-masters-results/|archive-date=21 December 2016|url-status=dead}}

He was invited to do a talk at TEDx in Zürich in 2012 and gave a talk titled "Why bodybuilding at age 93 is a great idea".{{cite web|url=http://tedxzurich.com/talksof2012/|title=Talks of 2012 - TEDxZurich|publisher=|access-date=2016-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424062747/http://tedxzurich.com/talksof2012/|archive-date=2016-04-24|url-status=dead}}

Eugster died on 26 April 2017 of complications following heart failure at the age of 97.