Holm was both a world-class swimmer and eminently worldly.
At 27, Poll is getting old for a world-class swimmer.
Reg was a world-class swimmer in the 1940's shattering NYC and national breast stroke records throughout his high school and college years.
A world-class swimmer in the backstroke, freestyle and butterfly, Coughlin is, as her coach, Tara McKeever, has called her, "the female version of Michael Phelps".
She was a world-class swimmer before her physical impairment, and is no less so now, which is a key part of the vision she is keen to project.
At 16, Vollmer is a world-class swimmer, the winner of three gold medals last summer in the Pan American Games and a strong candidate to make the United States team for the Athens Olympics in the 200-meter freestyle and the 100-meter butterfly.
Jamieson praised Murdoch as a world-class swimmer but admitted he was "a little bit shocked" at his rival's winning time of 2 minutes 07.30 seconds.
His old high school and college coaches talk about his discipline and ambition to become a world-class swimmer or pentathlon athlete, but say that the boy just lacked talent.
"There are at least three or four world class swimmers turning up, so we will have swimmers of international standing not winning a medal in some events," said du Feu.
He's a world class player".
