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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
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Figure skating career
Country Mexico
CoachJozef Sabovcik
Skating clubADIENL Monterrey
Began skating2007

Career

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Early years

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Season Short program Free skating
2024–2025
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2023–2024
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2022–2023
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2021–2022
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2020–2021
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2019–2020
[12]
  • Jeux d'Eau
    (from O)
    choreo. by Cynthia Stuart
2018–2019
[2]
2017–2018
[6]
2016–2017
[5]
  • Adiós Nonino
    by Astor Piazzolla
    choreo. by Nikolai Morozov

Competitive highlights

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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
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

Detailed results

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

ISU Personal best in bold.

Senior results

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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

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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

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  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. ^ a b "Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 16, 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "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. ^ a b "Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU: 2016/2017". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 23, 2017.
  6. ^ a b "Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU: 2017/2018". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 29, 2018.
  7. ^ a b "Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 14, 2023.
  8. ^ a b "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.
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