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Subjects: MAV, FVT

Media invitation - Beating a record for Centraide


Athletes and corporate employees will race to reach the top of
Place Ville Marie in under 2 minutes, 38 seconds

MONTRÉAL, Nov. 19, 2018 /CNW Telbec/ - On November 21, athletes and Olympic medallists will go head to head against 500 corporate employees in an unconventional relay race up the 41 floors of Place Ville Marie. Each team will try to get to the top in under 2 minutes, 38 seconds, or the best time ever posted for this challenge.

Participants in the 21st edition of the RBC Challenge relay benefit race will climb the steps of this iconic Montreal building in teams of 10 people. Donations and sponsorships raised by these seasoned climbers will go to Centraide of Greater Montreal to fight poverty and social exclusion.

Members of the media are invited to attend this charity competition:

 

Date:

Wednesday, November 21

Time:

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Location:

Due to work at Place Ville Marie, the event will be held at two different locations

 

11:30 a.m.

12:15 p.m.

Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth

Place Ville-Marie

900 René-Lévesque West, Montreal,

1 Place Ville-Marie, Montreal, entrance via

Place du Canada Room, 2nd floor

Robert-Bourassa Boulevard

Introduction of athletes, announcement of

Relay race up the steps. Start on the ground floor.

amount raised, and interviews with the media..


 

Who:

Nadine Renaud-Tinker, President, Quebec Headquarters, RBC Royal Bank
Lili-Anna Pere?a, President and Executive Director, Centraide of Greater Montreal
Team of athletes and Olympic medallists: Joelle Bekhazi (waterpolo), Lizanne Murphy
(basketball), Marie-Philip Poulin (hockey), Sandrine Mainville (swimming), Lex Albrecht
(cycling), Caroline Ouellette (hockey), Jacqueline Simoneau (synchronized swimming),
Antoine Valois-Fortier (judo), Dori Yeats (wrestling), and Joseph Polossifakis (fencing)

 

SOURCE Centraide of Greater Montreal


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