The phrase "a world class competitor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is among the best in their field or sport, indicating a high level of skill and performance.
Example: "After years of training and dedication, she has become a world class competitor in the sport of gymnastics."
Alternatives: "an elite competitor" or "a top-tier competitor".
It did not matter that Li is a world-class competitor in the individual medley, which is not Franklin's specialty.
Very apparent also is China's eagerness to become a world-class competitor and its paranoia and insecurity about the outside world.
Those words are forbidden around the Nichols household, which is home to the Olympic archer Jennifer Nichols and her younger sister, Amanda, also a world-class competitor.
As a boy, he had loved the sport and had nurtured ambitions to be a professional athlete but his mother had forbidden him from wrestling at high school and he was never cut out to be a world-class competitor.
Soon after, long before he would grow to 6 feet 2, 6-year-old Shani was into the first lap of his unlikely life, as a world-class competitor on the long and Roller-Derby-like short track.
"During the last five years, we have quietly been working on a complete transition of the Chrysler Group as a world-class competitor," Mr. Zetsche said at a media briefing last month, adding, "We have the right plan and the right team, and now we have the right product".
David Greenberg, International Paralympic Committee director of sport, has called Manchester's achievements "ground-breaking" and Grey-Thompson, a world-class competitor for 14 years, agrees that M2002 has been keen to show more than lip service to disabled participants and spectators.
To be a world-class competitor the Chinese need world-class technology, something its local manufacturers currently lack.
And at the end of the day, neither Tiger nor Hudson finished in the money, yet they are both successful, world class competitors.
North Korea and Cuba have world class competitors, while none of our traditional allies and only one of our modern allies, Japan, figured in the top 10 in Istanbul at the 2011 world championships.
