Sentence examples for world-class swimmers from inspiring English sources

He left Chicago this year for Tucson with great reluctance, and then only because he knew he needed to race alongside world-class swimmers every day if he wanted to fulfill his Olympic dream.

Nelms says that what sets Coughlin apart from other world-class swimmers he has known is her uncanny ability to connect coaching suggestions instantly to that feel — as though there were a direct route from her ears to her muscles and nerve endings, with no detour through the thinking brain.

The ability of world-class swimmers to push off hard from their back foot (as runners do) rather than just their toes and the ball of their foot should put a serious dent in the times of pretty much every swimming event but the backstroke.

We've been seeing the benefits of our world-class swimmers training at the five British Gas Intensive Training Centres (ITCs) which have been set up around the country over the past two years as well as the eight funded club programmes.

These relationships are unique for swimming, and this assumption can be supported by the past records of top world-class swimmers, such as Ian Thorpe (world record holder in the 100-m relay and individual 200, 400, and 800 m) and Grant Hackett (world record holder in 200-m relays and individual 400, 800, and 1500 m), as well as others who excel in both short and long swimming distances.

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.