Andrea Montesinos Cantú (born October 4, 2002) is a Mexican

figure skater Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...

. She has competed in the final segment at two ISU Championships.

Career

Early years

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

2016–2017 season

In September, making her junior international debut, Montesinos Cantú placed 9th at the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) in

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, Japan. In March, she qualified to the final segment at the 2017 World Junior Championships in

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, Taiwan. She ranked twenty-fourth in the short program, seventeenth in the free skate, and nineteenth overall. She was coached by

Vladimir Petrenko Vladimir Vasilyevich Petrenko ( uk, Володимир Васильович Петренко: Volodymyr Vasylovych Petrenko, russian: Владимир Васильевич Петренко; born in 1971) is a former competitive figure skater who r ...

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2017–2018 season

Montesinos Cantú decided to train in Lakewood, California, coached by

Rafael Arutyunyan Rafael Arutyunyan ( hy, Ռաֆայել Հարությունյան, ''Harutyunyan''; russian: Рафаэль Владимирович Арутюнян; born July 5, 1957) is an Armenian-American figure skating coach. He has coached in Armenia, Rus ...

, Vera Arutyunyan, and Nadia Kanaeva. Competing in her second JGP series, she placed twelfth in

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, Australia, and fourteenth in

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, Croatia. Ranked twenty-seventh in the short program, she did not reach the free skate at the 2018 World Junior Championships in

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, Bulgaria.

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 The ISU Challenger Series is a series of international figure skating competitions. Established by the International Skating Union in the 2014–15 season, it is a group of senior-level events ranked below the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. E ...

, she finished eleventh at the 2018 CS U.S. Classic, eleventh at the

2018 CS Autumn Classic International The 2018 CS Autumn Classic International was held in September 2018 in Oakville, Ontario. It was part of the 2018–19 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice danci ...

, and fifteenth at the

2018 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb The 2018 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb was held in December 2018 as part of the 2018–19 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Entries The International Skat ...

. She also appeared at a pair of JGP events, placing sixteenth in

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, Slovakia, and seventeenth in

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, Armenia. In February, Montesinos Cantú finished twentieth at the 2019 Four Continents Championships in

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. A month later, she competed at the 2019 World Junior Championships in

, Croatia, but she did not advance to the free skate after placing forty-third in the short.

2019–2020 season

Montesinos Cantú opened her season at the second event of the ISU Junior Grand Prix in

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, 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 The 2019 CS Autumn Classic International was held in September 2019 in Oakville, Ontario. It was part of the 2019–20 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dance. Entries The ...

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 The 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb was held in December 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia. It was part of the 2019–20 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance Ice d ...

. 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.

2020–2021 season

With the

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limiting international competition, Montesinos Cantú's lone appearance of the season saw her finish seventeenth at the International Challenge Cup.

2021–2022 season

After finishing fifteenth at the

2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb The 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb was held on December 7–11, 2021 in Sisak, Croatia. It was part of the 2021–22 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pairs, and ice dance. The non- ...

, Montesinos Cantú was eighteenth at the 2022 Four Continents Championships.

Programs

Competitive highlights

''CS: Challenger Series; JGP:

Junior Grand Prix The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a series of international junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men ...

Detailed results

''Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.'' ''ISU Personal best in bold.''

Senior results

Junior results

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Montesinos Cantu, Andrea 2002 births Mexican female single skaters Living people People from San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León