2012 Tour du Courage Launch - November 15, 2011

The Tour du Courage PROCURE was launched on November 15th at the Montreal Mansfield Athletic Club. A dozen of motivated cyclists were there to kick off this third edition along with Stéphane Quintal, Jean Pagé, Robin Burns and many others. The fundraising goal for the 2012 Tour is $ 500 000.



Laurent Proulx, the founder of the PROCURE Tour du Courage, revealed that an amount of $120,000 would be jointly invested by the Cancer Research Society and by the Tour du Courage PROCURE in prostate cancer research, and this, during year 2012. Thank you to all participants and personnalities who came to support them! 



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2011 - Fundraising results

 

Tour du Courage 2011 raised $ 306 937, WOW!

Under the honorary chairmanship of Alexandre Bilodeau, the second edition of the Tour du Courage has been incredibly successful in raising just over $ 306,937, almost double the amount raised last year. A total of 180 cyclists were enrolled in this second edition of the Tour and more than 30 volunteers helped make his weekend truly memorable. In its first edition, the Tour raised $ 155,000 with a total of cyclists who participated in the launch of the Tour.

Left to right: Laurent Proulx, Amelie Kretz - Triathlete, a member of the Quebec elite team, Patrice Kretz - 3rd place, Ford Championship Ironman Hawaii and Alexandre Bilodeau

LR: Laurent Proulx,  Alexandre Bilodeau and Serge Bilodeau

I would like to thank all volunteers, with your support and encouragement you have allowed our cycling event very pleasant and simply unique.

Thank you to all cyclists who participated in the Tour, and have mainly contributed to raise awareness of prostate cancer.

On behalf of all members of the Organizing Committee - thank you, hope to see you next year for the third edition!

 

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