Andrea Montesinos Cantú Explained

Andrea Montesinos Cantú
Birth Date:4 October 2002
Birth Place:San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
Residence:Huntington Beach, California, USA
Coach:Rafael Arutyunyan
Vera Arutyunyan
Nadia Kanaeva
Formercoach:Vladimir Petrenko
Gabriela Ibarra
Skating Club:ADIENL Monterrey
Currenttraininglocations:Lakewood, California
Formertraininglocations:Simsbury, Connecticut
Beganskating:2007
Combined Total:148.55
Combined Date:2019 Autumn Classic
Sp Score:52.59
Sp Date:2019 Autumn Classic
Fs Score:95.96
Fs Date:2019 Autumn Classic

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.

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

2017–2018 season

Montesinos Cantú decided to train in Lakewood, California, coached by Rafael Arutyunyan, Vera Arutyunyan, and Nadia Kanaeva. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 COVID-19 pandemic 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, Montesinos Cantú was eighteenth at the 2022 Four Continents Championships.

Programs

SeasonShort programFree skating
2022–2023
  • Andrei by Martin Phipps
  • Yellow Moon by Luca D'Alberto
    [1]
2020–2022
  • Jennifer Lopez medley
2018–2020
  • Jeux d'Eau
2017–2018
  • Experience
2016–2017
  • Adiós Nonino

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International
Event16–1717–1818–1919–2020–2121–2222–2323–2424-25
align=left 20th 16th 18th 15th
align=left 11th 10th
align=left C
align=left 15th 20th 15th
align=left 11th 5th 13th
align=left 17th
align=left Cranberry Cup21st
align=left 11th
align=left bgcolor=gold 1st
align=left 7th
align=left Tayside TrophyWD
International: Junior
align=left 19th 27th 43rd 38th
align=left 17th
align=left 12th
align=left 14th
align=left 9th
align=left 16th
align=left 17th
align=left 8th
National
Mexican Champ.1st J 1st J 1st 2nd 1st

Detailed results

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

ISU Personal best in bold.

Senior results

2023–2024 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
February 1-4, 20242024 Four Continents Championshipsalign=center 16
50.86		align=center 16
92.38		align=center 15
143.24
November 27-December 3, 20232023 Mexican Figure Skating Championshipsalign=center 2
47.60		align=center 1
97.07		align=center bgcolor="gold" 1
144.67
November 16-19, 20232023 NRW Trophyalign=center 1
51.23		align=center 4
84.96		align=center bgcolor="gold" 1
136.19
November 7-12, 20232023 Denkova-Staviski Cupalign=center 13
41.16		align=center 9
89.66		align=center 11
131.12
2022–2023 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
September 13–16, 20222022 CS U.S. Classicalign=center 12
39.86		align=center 13
63.43		align=center 13
103.29
2021–2022 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
January 18–23, 20222022 Four Continents Championshipsalign=center 19
47.36		align=center 18
85.67		align=center 18
133.03
December 7–11, 20212021 CS Golden Spin of Zagrebalign=center 19
42.78		align=center 15
89.07		align=center 15
131.85
August 11–15, 20212021 Cranberry Cup Internationalalign=center 24
34.53		align=center 21
71.97		align=center 21
106.50
2020–2021 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
February 25–28, 20212021 International Challenge Cupalign=center 13
49.29		align=center 17
71.41		align=center 17
120.70
2019–2020 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
February 4–9, 20202020 Four Continents Championshipsalign=center 15
47.40		align=center 18
87.84		align=center 16
135.24
December 4–7, 20192019 Golden Spinalign=center 22
40.96		align=center 17
86.49		align=center 20
127.45
September 19–21, 20192019 U.S. Classicalign=center 8
49.54		align=center 5
91.05		align=center 5
140.59
September 12–14, 20192019 Autumn Classicalign=center 8
52.59		align=center 12
95.96		align=center 10
148.55
2018–2019 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
February 7–10, 20192019 Four Continents Championshipsalign=center 22
42.92		align=center 20
81.59		align=center 20
124.51
December 5–8, 20182018 Golden Spinalign=center 19
45.39		align=center 17
88.91		align=center 15
134.30
September 20–22, 20182018 Autumn Classicalign=center 15
43.25		align=center 10
84.90		align=center 11
128.15
September 12–16, 20182018 U.S. Classicalign=center 12
45.61		align=center 8
93.21		align=center 11
138.82
August 3–5, 20182018 Philadelphia Summer Internationalalign=center 8
35.94		align=center 6
74.58		align=center 7
110.52

Junior results

2019–2020 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
March 2–8, 20202020 World Junior Championshipsalign=center 38
42.04		align=center
-		align=center 38
42.04
August 28–31, 20192019 JGP United Statesalign=center 14
50.59		align=center 20
68.60		align=center 17
119.19
2018–2019 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
March 4–10, 20192019 World Junior Championshipsalign=center 43
35.15		align=center
-		align=center 43
35.15
October 10–13, 20182018 JGP Armeniaalign=center 17
39.31		align=center 18
64.79		align=center 17
104.10
August 22–25, 20182018 JGP SLovakiaalign=center 20
40.41		align=center 14
82.87		align=center 16
123.28
2017–2018 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
March 5–11, 20182018 World Junior Championshipsalign=center 27
44.26		align=center
-		align=center 27
44.26
September 27–30, 20172017 JGP Croatiaalign=center 18
38.18		align=center 13
82.12		align=center 14
120.30
August 23–26, 20172017 JGP Australiaalign=center 15
37.66		align=center 12
77.13		align=center 12
114.79
2016–2017 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
March 13–19, 20172017 World Junior Championshipsalign=center 24
44.66		align=center 17
83.89		align=center 19
128.55
Sept. 29 – Oct. 1, 20162016 Autumn Classic Junioralign=center 8
36.50		align=center 8
66.85		align=center 8
103.35
September 8–11, 20162016 JGP Japanalign=center 9
45.36		align=center 9
80.25		align=center 9
125.61

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Andrea Montesinos Cantú. isuresults.com. 28 July 2023.

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