/R E P E A T -- Media invitation - RBC Challenge for Centraide: 660 runners will climb Place Ville Marie to give people living in poverty a step up/

MONTRÉAL, Nov. 25, 2019 /CNW Telbec/ - On November 27, about 660 corporate employees and professional athletes will take part in the RBC Challenge for Centraide, a relay race up the steps of Place Ville Marie.

The donations and sponsorships raised by the climbers will go to Centraide of Greater Montreal to fight poverty and social exclusion.

The goal for each team of 10 people will be to reach the top of this landmark downtown building in less than 2 minutes 38 seconds, or the best time recorded in the challenge so far.

Members of the media are invited to attend this race up the tower's 41 floors:

Date:	Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Time:	11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Location:	Place Ville-Marie, 1 Place Ville-Marie, Montreal, entrance via Robert-Bourassa
Who:	Nadine Renaud-Tinker, President, Quebec Headquarters, RBC Royal Bank Lili-Anna Pereša, President and Executive Director, Centraide of Greater Montreal Professional athletes: Lex Albrecht (cycling), Eric Radford (figure skating), Camille Ruest (figure skating), Benoit St-Amand (sledge hockey), and Andrew Wolfe (figure skating).

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SOURCE Centraide of Greater Montreal

Annick Gagnon, Public Relations Advisor, Centraide of Greater Montreal, 514 288-1261, ext. 242, [email protected]; Denis Dubé, Director of Communications, RBC Royal Bank, 514 874-6556, [email protected]

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