The word "competed" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a situation when two or more people or teams have engaged in a contest or activity in order to win or achieve a goal. For example, "The two teams competed fiercely in the championship game."
"This was quite a surprise as we put up a master's thesis from a brand new primate lab with very little funding, and successfully competed with 11 PhD finalists from the best primatology programs in the world," McPhee said.
I don't mean they've been empty before, but not like this," said Aldama, who has previously competed for her native Cuba and Sudan but has lived in Britain for more than a decade and is married to a Scot.
In deference to his ancestors, if nothing else, you would expect him to agree that his decision to play tennis was influenced by the fact that both his great-grandmother, Ellen Stawell-Brown, and his grandfather, Henry Billington, competed at Wimbledon.
In March they competed in the Spi Ouest France regatta in Brittany, France.
But one of the men questioned was Chris Bowles, 49, a European and British judo champion and registered coach who competed in the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
I always competed in the sprints, mainly for my school.
I had competed in international competitions before, in Singapore and the Isle of Man, but this was the big one for me".
Four of its students competed in last week's Games and 90% of students participate in sport.
She competed in a dress that covered her body from head to toe and the International Triathlon Union aided her by providing a tent where she could change clothes in between legs.
Since then Mutesi has competed in chess Olympiads in Siberia, Turkey and Norway – after which she was given the Woman Candidate Master ranking by the World Chess Federation.
With the test operations competed last year, all that remains is a packed expanse of dried earth, perhaps two football fields in size, with a battered olive green shipping container sitting at its centre.
