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It is a battle of titans in Valencia meet tomorrow

Kenneth Kipkemoi, left, and Lawrence Cherono, centre, both of Kenya, and Lelisa Desisa, of Ethiopia, run the course during he 123rd Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, 2019, in Boston. [AP Photo/Steven Senne]

The stage for the second gruelling clash this year, after London Marathon in October, has been set as top guns line up at the Valencia Marathon tomorrow. 

From two-time world marathon champion Abel Kirui to Boston and Chicago marathon champion Lawrence Cherono and Amos Kipruto — the man who came second behind world record holder Eliud Kipchoge in Berlin in 2018 — top-form Kenyan men are going to Spain for, perhaps, another history-making event.

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