A National Race Day will be held in Tajikistan on May 21.

According to the press center of Tajikistan’s National Olympic Committee (NOC), the race route will begin at the traffic police checkpoint «Chorbogh” in Varzob district and ends at the Navruzgoh Complex in Dushanbe’s hippodrome.

The race participants will compete in three distances – three, five and ten kilometers. The National Race Day is expected to start simultaneously in all cities and district centers across the country.

In Dushanbe, sports veterans, students, entrepreneurs as well as representatives of diplomatic missions and international organizations active in the country are supposed to take part in the race.

It should be noted that the National Race Day has been held in Tajikistan on the third Sunday of May since 2007 by the executive order of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon.