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

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. She is a two-time Mexican national champion (2019, 2023) 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

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(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

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2017–2018 season

Montesinos Cantú decided to train in

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, coached by Rafael Arutyunyan, 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

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

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, and fifteenth at the 2018 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb. 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

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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 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. 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

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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 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, pair skating, and ice dance. T ...

and ended the season with an eighteenth-place finish at the 2022 Four Continents Championships.

2022–2023 season

Montesinos Cantú's lone competition appearance for the season was at the

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, where she finished thirteenth.

2023–2024 season

Prior to the season, it was announced that Montesinos Cantú was now training in

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and being coached by Jozef Sabovcik. 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. 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.

2024–2025 season

In August, Montesinos Cantú had surgery performed on her ankle, which required time to recover. She returned to competition at the

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in January, where she finished in twenty-fifth place. She subsequently finished the season by placing fourteenth at the 2025 Bavarian Open.

Programs

Competitive highlights

''CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix''

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 Living people Mexican female single skaters People from San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León Sportspeople from Nuevo León 21st-century Mexican sportswomen Competitors at the 2025 Winter World University Games