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Kenyans to face Girma and Bakkali in 3,000m steeplechase

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Kenya's Conseslus Kipruto celebrates after winning the athletics men's 3000m steeplechase final during the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games at the Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast on April 13, 2018. / AFP PHOT

It will be a do-or-die battle in men’s 3,000m steeplechase heats at the 18th World Athletics Championships that start at Hayward Field inside University of Oregon in Eugene, USA, tomorrow morning.

But it would turn out into a two-man showdown for the title between Morocco’s Olympic champion Soufiane El Bakkali and Ethiopia’s silver medallist Lamecha Girmaif if their form in the Diamond League meetings is anything to go by. 

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