"talented swimmer" is correct and can be used in written English.
For instance, "John is a talented swimmer who has won several medals."
He was famous at 14 – a prodigiously talented swimmer who became Australia's most decorated Olympian.
Madge Cave was an accomplished figure skater, as well as a talented swimmer and equestrienne, when she was introduced to the freer, less-rigid International skating style (made famous by Jackson Haines) by a new coach, Edgar Syers.
He was born in the US Virgin Islands and was a talented swimmer before turning to basketball, partly in order to fulfill his mother's wish for him to get a college degree: he went on to attend Wake Forest on a basketball scholarship.
O'Brien's sister Ann was a talented swimmer in her childhood years, but she preferred horseback riding.
Though also a talented swimmer, she was forced to make a choice between the two sports, and ultimately chose netball.
The rape culture also taught us that Brock Turner is a talented swimmer, that his life is full of promise.
In a world where former drugs cheats are allowed to compete as long as they've served their bans, can we really justify the exclusion of one of our most talented swimmers on a technicality?
"I think probably we were more students of the sport than talented swimmers".
"In Britain we have some of the best coaches and most talented swimmers in the world," Furniss said.
Similarly talented, the swimmers differ in personality.
It is all very different now for Ledecky, one of a group of talented, teenage swimmers who could be the core of the national team for years to come.
