INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — The top distance athletes in the U.S. will toe the line on Friday, May 27 at the USATF 10,000m Championships as part of the Nike Prefontaine Classic. The event serves as the selection event for the World Athletics Championships. The top three place finishers in the men’s and women’s 10,000m races, provided they have met the qualifying standard, will earn a berth to the World Athletics Outdoor Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon in July - the first time the global championship will be held on U.S. soil. There are eight entries who have run the World standard of 27:28.00, headlined by two-time Olympic qualifier Grant Fisher (Portland, Oregon/USATF Oregon). Fisher has been stellar in 2022, running a 12:53.73 5,000m indoors at the David Hemery Invitational on February 12, and 26:33.84 in the 10,000m at the TEN on March 6 - both besting Galen Rupp’s previous American Records. With these performances, Fisher is now ranked fifth and seventh on the all-time list in the indoor 5,000 and 10,000, respectively. Joining Fisher are fellow 2020 Olympians Woody Kincaid (Portland, Oregon/USATF Oregon) and Joe Klecker (Boulder, Colorado/USATF Colorado). Kincaid is the reigning USATF 10,000m champion, having edged Fisher at the Olympic Trials, ultimately finishing 15th in the event at Tokyo. Klecker placed third at the 2021 Trials and enters the event fresh off a personal best in the 5,000m, having just run 13:04.42 at The Track Meet on May 14. Bowerman Track Club is well represented at the top of the U.S. 10,000m rankings, with Fisher and Kincaid ranked first and second and Sean McGorty (Beaverton, Oregon/USATF Oregon) and Lopez Lomong (Apo, Oregon/USATF Oregon) ranked fourth and ninth. This is McGorty’s first time running the 10,000m at a U.S. Championships, but he enters with an impressive 27:18.15 seed time, also from the TEN in March. Lomong is a two-time U.S. Olympian, as well as the 2018 and 2019 US 10,000 meter champion. Several other athletes will contend for spots on the team, including 2021 Trials fourth-place finisher Ben True (West Lebanon, New Hampshire/USATF New England), 13:00.48 5,000m man Emmanuel Bor (Colorado Springs, Colorado/USATF Colorado), 2021 NCAA Cross Country Champion Conner Mantz (Smithfield, Utah/USATF Utah), and World Indoor 3,000m finalist Dillon Maggard (Logan, Utah/USATF Pacific Northwest). The women’s race also figures to be exciting with an impressive 11 athletes possessing the World Championships standard. Elise Cranny (Beaverton, Oregon/USATF Oregon) of Bowerman Track Club enters with the top seed time, her 30:14.66 at The TEN just missing Molly Huddle’s 30:13.17 American record. Cranny competed in the 5,000m at Tokyo, finishing 13th in the final. Behind Cranny are three more Olympians: Karissa Schweizer (Urbandale, Iowa/USATF Oregon), Emily Infield (Portland, Oregon/USATF Oregon) and Alicia Monson (Longmont, Colorado/USATF Colorado). Schweizer - another Bowerman TC athlete - qualified in both the 5,000m and 10,000m last year, and currently is ranked fourth on the all-time U.S. list in the 10,000m with her 30:47.99. Monson joined Schweizer on the Tokyo 10,000m team, and is once again a threat to stand atop the podium in Eugene. Also running well is 2019 NCAA Cross Country Champion Weini Kelati (Flagstaff, Arizona/USATF Arizona), recently achieving a personal best of 31:11.11 to win The Track Meet on May 6. Other contenders to make the team include 2017 World Cross Country qualifier Natosha Rogers (Denver, Colorado/USATF Michigan), NCAA Cross Country champion Ednah Kurgat (Colorado Springs, Colorado/USATF Colorado), and Northern Arizona Elite’s Stephanie Bruce (Flagstaff, Arizona/USATF Arizona). The 2022 USATF 10,000m Championships will be webcast on USATF.TV+. Coverage begins at 10:30 p.m. ET on May 27. Join the conversation with USATF on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook using the hashtag #USATF.