Andrea Montesinos Cantú

Andrea Montesinos Cantú (born October 4, 2002) is a Mexican figure skater. She is a two-time Mexican national champion (2019, 2023) has competed in the final segment at two ISU Championships.

Andrea Montesinos Cantú
Montesinos at the 2017 World Junior Championships
Born	(2002-10-04) October 4, 2002 (age 22) San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Mexico
Coach	Jozef Sabovcik
Skating club	ADIENL Monterrey
Began skating	2007

Career

Early years

Montesinos Cantú began learning to skate as a five-year-old in Mexico before relocating to the United States.^[1][2] Competing in the advanced novice category, she won silver at the 2014 Santa Claus Cup in Hungary.^[3]

2016–2017 season

In September, making her junior international debut, Montesinos Cantú placed 9th at the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) in Yokohama, Japan. In March, she qualified to the final segment at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Taipei, Taiwan.^[4] She ranked twenty-fourth in the short program, seventeenth in the free skate, and nineteenth overall. She was coached by Vladimir Petrenko in Simsbury, Connecticut.^[5]

2017–2018 season

Montesinos Cantú decided to train in Lakewood, California, coached by Rafael Arutyunyan, Vera Arutyunyan, and Nadia Kanaeva.^[6] Competing in her second JGP series, she placed twelfth in Brisbane, Australia, and fourteenth in Zagreb, Croatia. Ranked twenty-seventh in the short program, she did not reach the free skate at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.^[3]

2018–2019 season

Montesinos Cantú made her senior debut in August 2018, placing seventh at the Philadelphia Summer International. Competing in the ISU Challenger Series, she finished eleventh at the 2018 CS U.S. Classic, eleventh at the 2018 CS Autumn Classic International, and fifteenth at the 2018 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb. She also appeared at a pair of JGP events, placing sixteenth in Bratislava, Slovakia, and seventeenth in Yerevan, Armenia.^[3]

In February, Montesinos Cantú finished twentieth at the 2019 Four Continents Championships in Anaheim, California. A month later, she competed at the 2019 World Junior Championships in Zagreb, Croatia, but she did not advance to the free skate after placing forty-third in the short.^[3]

2019–2020 season

Montesinos Cantú opened her season at the second event of the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Lake Placid, New York, where she set a new personal best of 50.59 in the short program. She finished seventeenth. Competing on the Challenger series, she was tenth at the 2019 CS Autumn Classic International with personal bests in all three scores, then fifth at the 2019 CS U.S. Classic, and finally twentieth at the 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb.^[3]

In the second half of the season, Montesinos Cantú was sixteenth at the 2020 Four Continents Championships and thirty-eighth at the 2020 World Junior Championships.^[3]

2020–2021 season

With the COVID-19 pandemic limiting international competition, Montesinos Cantú's lone appearance of the season saw her finish seventeenth at the International Challenge Cup.^[3]

2021–2022 season

Montesinos Cantú began the season by finishing twenty-first at the 2021 Cranberry Cup. She then went on to place fifteenth at the 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb and ended the season with an eighteenth-place finish at the 2022 Four Continents Championships.^[3]

2022–2023 season

Montesinos Cantú's lone competition appearance for the season was at the 2022 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic, where she finished thirteenth.^[3]

2023–2024 season

Prior to the season, it was announced that Montesinos Cantú was now training in Salt Lake City, Utah and being coached by Jozef Sabovcik.^[7][8] Montesinos Cantú's first competition of the season was the 2023 Denkova-Staviski Cup, where she placed tenth. She went on to take gold at the 2023 NRW Trophy.^[3]

At the 2024 Mexican Championships, Montesinos Cantú her second senior national title. Selected to compete at the 2024 Four Continents Championships, Montesinos Cantú finished fifteenth.^[3]

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating
2024–2025 [9]	Stay by Rihanna & Mikky Ekko Diamonds by Rihanna choreo. by Benoit Richaud	Tris (from Divergent) by Junkie XL & Ellie Goulding choreo. by Mark Pillay
2023–2024 [8]	Yellow Moon by Luca D'Alberto Andrei by Martin Phipps choreo. by Benoit Richaud	The Storm by Balázs Havasi choreo. by David Wilson
2022–2023 [7]		Everybody Wants to Rule the World (from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) performed by Lorde choreo. by Shae-Lynn Bourne
2021–2022 [10]	Jennifer Lopez medley choreo. by Adam Rippon
2020–2021 [11]
2019–2020 [12]	Swing da Cor by Daniela Mercury choreo. by Nadia Kanaeva	Jeux d'Eau (from O) choreo. by Cynthia Stuart
2018–2019 [2]
2017–2018 [6]	Experience by Ludovico Einaudi choreo. by Nikolai Morozov	Adiós Nonino by Astor Piazzolla choreo. by Nikolai Morozov
2016–2017 [5]	La califfa by Ennio Morricone choreo. by Nikolai Morozov	Adiós Nonino by Astor Piazzolla choreo. by Nikolai Morozov

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[3]
Event	16–17	17–18	18–19	19–20	20–21	21–22	22–23	23–24	24–25
Four Continents			20th	16th		18th		15th
CS Autumn Classic			11th	10th
CS Cup of Tyrol					C
CS Golden Spin			15th	20th		15th
CS U.S. Classic			11th	5th			13th
Challenge Cup					17th
Cranberry Cup						21st
Denkova-Staviski Cup								11th
NRW Trophy								1st
Philadelphia			7th
Tayside Trophy							WD
Winter University Games									25th
International: Junior[3]
Junior Worlds	19th	27th	43rd	38th
JGP Armenia			17th
JGP Australia		12th
JGP Croatia		14th
JGP Japan	9th
JGP Slovakia			16th
JGP U.S.				17th
Autumn Classic	8th
National[13][14]
Mexican Champ.		1st J	1st J	1st		2nd		1st	2nd

Detailed results

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.

ISU Personal best in bold.

Senior results

2023–2024 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
February 1–4, 2024	2024 Four Continents Championships	16 50.86	16 92.38	15 143.24
November 27-December 3, 2023	2023 Mexican Figure Skating Championships	2 47.60	1 97.07	1 144.67
November 16–19, 2023	2023 NRW Trophy	1 51.23	4 84.96	1 136.19
November 7–12, 2023	2023 Denkova-Staviski Cup	13 41.16	9 89.66	11 131.12
2022–2023 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
September 13–16, 2022	2022 CS U.S. Classic	12 39.86	13 63.43	13 103.29
2021–2022 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
January 18–23, 2022	2022 Four Continents Championships	19 47.36	18 85.67	18 133.03
December 7–11, 2021	2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb	19 42.78	15 89.07	15 131.85
August 11–15, 2021	2021 Cranberry Cup International	24 34.53	21 71.97	21 106.50
2020–2021 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
February 25–28, 2021	2021 International Challenge Cup	13 49.29	17 71.41	17 120.70
2019–2020 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
February 4–9, 2020	2020 Four Continents Championships	15 47.40	18 87.84	16 135.24
December 4–7, 2019	2019 Golden Spin	22 40.96	17 86.49	20 127.45
September 19–21, 2019	2019 U.S. Classic	8 49.54	5 91.05	5 140.59
September 12–14, 2019	2019 Autumn Classic	8 52.59	12 95.96	10 148.55
2018–2019 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
February 7–10, 2019	2019 Four Continents Championships	22 42.92	20 81.59	20 124.51
December 5–8, 2018	2018 Golden Spin	19 45.39	17 88.91	15 134.30
September 20–22, 2018	2018 Autumn Classic	15 43.25	10 84.90	11 128.15
September 12–16, 2018	2018 U.S. Classic	12 45.61	8 93.21	11 138.82
August 3–5, 2018	2018 Philadelphia Summer International	8 35.94	6 74.58	7 110.52

Junior results

2019–2020 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
March 2–8, 2020	2020 World Junior Championships	38 42.04	-	38 42.04
August 28–31, 2019	2019 JGP United States	14 50.59	20 68.60	17 119.19
2018–2019 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
March 4–10, 2019	2019 World Junior Championships	43 35.15	-	43 35.15
October 10–13, 2018	2018 JGP Armenia	17 39.31	18 64.79	17 104.10
August 22–25, 2018	2018 JGP SLovakia	20 40.41	14 82.87	16 123.28
2017–2018 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
March 5–11, 2018	2018 World Junior Championships	27 44.26	-	27 44.26
September 27–30, 2017	2017 JGP Croatia	18 38.18	13 82.12	14 120.30
August 23–26, 2017	2017 JGP Australia	15 37.66	12 77.13	12 114.79
2016–2017 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
March 13–19, 2017	2017 World Junior Championships	24 44.66	17 83.89	19 128.55
Sept. 29 – Oct. 1, 2016	2016 Autumn Classic Junior	8 36.50	8 66.85	8 103.35
September 8–11, 2016	2016 JGP Japan	9 45.36	9 80.25	9 125.61

References

1. Rodríguez, Dulce (April 29, 2015). "Andrea Montesinos apunta a la patinadora artística en la justa invernal". entrelineas.com.mx (in Spanish). Archived from the original on July 6, 2018.
2. "Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 16, 2019.
3. "Competition Results: Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 16, 2019.
4. "Patinadora regia cautiva en Mundial Junior en Taipei". Azteca 7 (in Spanish). March 18, 2017. Archived from the original on March 16, 2019.
5. "Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU: 2016/2017". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 23, 2017.
6. "Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU: 2017/2018". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 29, 2018.
7. "Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 14, 2023.
8. "Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU: 2023/2024". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on February 2, 2024.
9. "Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU: 2024/2025". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on September 7, 2024.
10. "Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on January 27, 2022.
11. "Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU: 2020/2021". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on April 19, 2021.
12. "Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on September 14, 2019.
13. "Andrea Montesinos Cantu". statsonice.com.
14. "Andrea MONTESINOS". rinkresults.com.

External links

• Andrea Montesinos Cantu at the International Skating Union