After winning two gold medals in the World Masters rowing event in Princeton in September 2006, at the age of 87, Charles Eugster is probably the world's oldest successful competitive oarsman.  For the last 10 years he has won World or Euro Masters Gold Medals every year.  His total to date comprises 17 World Masters Gold Medals and 7 Euro Masters Gold Medals.

Charles has won trophies at nearly 100 regattas in various countries and he has competed three times at Henley Royal Regatta, representing St Paul's School in the 1938 Ladies Plate and representing Thames RC in 1939 Grand Challenge Cup and the 1948 Wyfold Cup.

When not on the water or in the gym, Charles was a very successful dental surgeon and publisher.  He practiced in Zurich from 1954 to 1994 and from 1978 to 2000 he published a dental newsletter in English, French and German, and temporarily in Russian and Japanese.

He holds degrees in Dentistry from the Royal College of Surgeons (UK), Northwestern University (USA), Heidelberg University, cum laude, (W Germany) and the University of Zurich (Switzerland), where he taught from 1955-62. He is an Honorary Member of the American Dental Association, a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a Fellow Emeritus of he Academy of General Dentistry.         

His sporting clubs include:  Leander (Life Member), Thames Rowing Club,  Zurich Grasshoppers Rowing Club and the Swiss Natural Bodybuilding and Fitness  Federation.

Social clubs include: Delta Sigma Delta, Life Member Supreme Chapter, Lions Club Zurich, Oriental Club (London) Club Baur au Lac (Zurich), Swiss Friends of U.S.A, Schweizerische Institut fur
Kunstwissenschaften and Friends of the Royal Academy.   

Charles is a widower with two sons.