A host of Kimbia athletes will run their final races this weekend before the London World Championships, with Evan Jager, Emily Infeld and Coleen Quigley all set to compete, among others.

Jager, the reigning Olympic silver medalist, will compete in the 3000m steeplechase at the Monaco Diamond League on Friday evening. The 28-year-old has been in impressive form so far this year, winning the US Championships with ease on June 25 in 8:16.88. However, Monaco will represent his first race of the season outside the US, and it’s a hot one, featuring Olympic champion Conseslus Kipruto, among others.

Colleen Quigley will also be in her first race in Europe this year, though the Nike Bowerman Track Club  athlete will compete in Heusden, Belgium, a meeting synonymous with fast times in the distance races. Quigley will sharpen her speed ahead of London with a 1500m, and with a 4:24.88 mile to her name indoors this year, it will be no surprise if her personal best of 4:11.61 falls.

Emily Infeld, meanwhile, will also tune up for her 10,000m outing in London with a 5000m race in Heusden, where she will be joined by fellow Kimbia athlete and Nike Bowerman Track Club teammate Shalane Flanagan, who she has been training with in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in recent weeks. Infeld’s last race was when she finished fifth in Lucerne over 3000m in 8:55.41, while Flanagan’s last race came at the US Championships in Sacramento, where she finished fourth in the 10,000m in 31:31.12.

Fellow Kimbia athlete Marc Scott will race over 5000m in Heusden. The 23-year-old clocked a PB of 7:43.37 over 3000m at the London Diamond League last week and looks capable of lowering his best of 13:36.81. Farther afield, Izaic Yorks has been in impressive form in recent weeks, the 23-year-old running a season’s best of 3:37.91 last week in Sainte-Therese, Montreal. He backed that up on Wednesday night with a 3:39.75 run to finish second over 1500m in Seattle, just behind race winner Brannon Kidder (3:39.39).

In only her second race of the year, Emily Infeld placed second in the USATF 10,000 Thursday night to earn a trip to August’s World Championships in London. On a day when the meet schedule was scuttled to account for extraordinary heat, Emily’s time of 31:22.67 was a 4-second PR. U.S. record holder Molly Huddle won in 31:19.86.

Emily’s teammate and training partner Shalane Flanagan boldly led the first 20 of the race’s 25 laps before finishing fourth in 31:31.12. The race was only Shalane’s second since last August’s Olympic Marathon, and she knew she needed to keep the pace honest because a lack of workouts wouldn’t serve her well in a kicker’s strategic race.

“This is the least prepared I’ve ever been for a race,” Shalane told Runner’s World afterward. “But I think it’s important to still show up when you are unprepared sometimes. That’s part of the job…I think it’s important to still show up and do your job.”

Colleen Quigley (second in the first heat) and Courtney Frerichs (first in the second heat) easily advanced to Saturday’s steeplechase final.

Izaic Yorks placed eighth in his 1500-meter qualifying round and didn’t advance to Saturday’s final.

Emily Infeld made a rare off-track foray a successful on Saturday, taking second at the Gate River Run 15K in Jacksonville, Florida. The race served as the U.S. 15K championships for women and men.

In the longest road race of her life, Emily set a personal best of 49:42. Jordan Hasay won in 49:28, and Neely Spence Gracey was third in 49:47. Those two are deep in preparation for next month’s Boston Marathon, making Emily’s season opener that much more impressive.

“Starting to like these longer distances but excited to be back on the track for some 5k/10k action,” Emily wrote on Instagram after her race.

In the men’s race, won by Olympian Leonard Korir in 43:22, German Fernandez was 14th in 44:57 and Sean Quigley was 20th in 45:33.

For the second time in the last three years, Track & Field News has ranked Evan Jager second in the world in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. The ranking was pretty much a no-brainer, given Evan’s Olympic silver behind Kenya’s Conseslus Kipruto, who got the gold in Rio and the 2016 #1 spot.

Also making T&FN‘s vaunted year-end list:

• Shalane Flanagan, #1 on the U.S. marathon list.
• Emily Infeld, #2, U.S. 10,000 meters (and #5, U.S. 5K).
• Colleen Quigley, #2, U.S. steeple.
• Amy Cragg, #3, U.S. marathon.
• Courtney Frerichs, #3, U.S. steeple.
• Izaic Yorks, #10, U.S. 1500.

Shalane topped the U.S. marathon list for the fourth time in the last five years. Emily’s #2 at 10K was her second consecutive year there. Izaic made his first of what we assume will be many appearances in the rankings.

Evan, of course, got the top U.S. ranking in the steeple. It was his fifth straight such ranking since 2012, the year he took up the event. The last American man to have a longer streak at #1 in the steeple was Henry Marsh, who was ranked the top U.S. steepler from 1978 through 1983. Evan also picked up a #7 ranking on the U.S. 5K list, and tied with 1500-meter Olympic champion Matthew Centrowitz for 5th in the overall U.S. rankings.

Running in what turned out to be the deepest women’s 10,000 in history, Emily Infeld placed 11th in 31:26.94 in Friday morning’s Olympic final in Rio.

Emily’s time is a new personal best, 12 seconds under her previous PR, set last year.

When Kenyan Alice Aprot set a sub-30:00 pace from the start, Emily let the lead pack go, and ran in a small chase pack, which she fronted for much of the race.

“I hope to keep getting better and better,” Emily told Runner’s World. “I was definitely in better shape than that showed today. It’s my first Games and I’m happy to be here…hopefully I can come back and be a bit smarter.”

Led by Ethiopian Almaz Ayana’s world record of 29:178.45, the race was extraordinarily deep. There were eight national records and 18 personal bests, the latter including the first 13 finishers.