Maxine Esteban boosted her campaign to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics after advancing to the main draw of the Mazars Challenge International de Paris at the Pierre de Coubertin Stadium. Maxine Esteban boosts her bid to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics as she stays on track in the said world...
Filipino-Ivorian fencer Maxine Esteban said she looks forward to the day that no national athlete hoping to bring honor to the country will have to chase their dreams elsewhere. Maxine Esteban receives pointers from renowned fencing coach, Italian Andrea Magro. “I hope I will be the...
Maxine Esteban is upbeat of her campaign to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics – even if it means forging a different path and representing Ivory Coast. The country’s former top fencer, who recently switched nationalities due to “a series of unfortunate events very little of which I had no...
Top Filipino fencer Maxine Esteban has decided to switch nationalities to Ivory Coast in her quest to earn a berth to the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Philippine Fencing Association has approved the transfer and has requested the International Fencing Federation (FIE) to waive the three-year residency...
Fencer Maxine Esteban swept her pool matches to advance to the knockout stage of the World Senior Cup in Belgrade, Serbia. Photo from Maxine Esteban's Facebook account Esteban scored six points in Pool 7 after beating Slovakia’s Gaia Cantucci, Japan’s Haruka Umetsu, Poland’s Martyna Dlugosz,...
Maxine Esteban shows off the medal and beer she received for placing seventh in the Sokol Cup U23. With her is Italian coach Andrea Magro. Maxine Esteban yielded to Slovakia’s Marta Cammilleti, 13-2, to settle for seventh place in the Sokol Cup U23 Senior Women’s Foil Competition in Brno, Czech...
Maxine Esteban Maxine Esteban finished 71st in a field of 140 fencers at the close of the World Seniors Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico recently. The 21-year-old Ateneo student won four of six matches in the group stage of the women’s individual foil event to advance in the knockout phase. Her...
The national team for fencing is resuming its ‘bubble’ training in Ormoc City in preparation for the possibility of competing in the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Vietnam early next year. As approved by the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC), the training is set Sept. 18 to Dec. 5 at the Ormoc...
Richard Gomez As soon as Ormoc City Mayor Richard Gomez got his RT-PCR test result that yielded positive for COVID-19, he coordinated with the personnel that organized last week’s National Open Fencing Championships at the Ormoc City Superdome. Amat Canlas, head coach of the national team, said...
Samantha Catantan, right, and Maxine Esteban show their medals after they finished 1-2 in the women's foil event in the National Open Fencing Championship last Thursday at the Superdome in Ormoc City. (Photo from Elite Facebook page) Rising star Samantha Catantan and Southeast Asian (SEA) Games...
Samantha Catantan, left, scored a point against Maxine Esteban during their final bout in women's foil in leg 2 of the NationalOpen Fencing Championship Thursday at the Superdome in Ormoc City. (Photo from Elite Facebook Page) Same opponent, same result. Samantha Catantan delivered another solid...
