Andrea Montesinos Cantú (born October 4, 2002) is a Mexican figure skater. She is the 2023 NRW Trophy champion, 2025 Santa Claus Cup champion, and a three-time Mexican national champion (2019, 2023, 2026).
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: Junior international debut 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: Mexican junior champion Montesinos Cantú began training 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: Senior international debut 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: First Mexican national title 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 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.
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.
2023–2024 season: First international medal Prior to the season, it was announced that Montesinos Cantú was now training in Salt Lake City, Utah 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 secured 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 2025 Winter World University Games in January, where she finished in twenty-fifth place. She subsequently finished the season by placing fourteenth at the 2025 Bavarian Open.
2025–2026 season Montesinos Cantú started the season in August by competing at the 2025 CS Cranberry Cup International, where she finished in eighth place.
In January, she finished in 20th place at the 2026 Four Continents.
2026–2027 season Montesinos Cantú opened her season, placing 11th at the 2026 Kinoshita Group Cup.
Programs Season Short program Free skating2026–2027 Histoire d'un Amourby Helene Segara, Mathieu Lecat, Jean-François Berger The Mission: Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone, Yo-Yo Ma, Roma Sinfonietta Gabriel's Oboe (Whispers in a Dream)by Hayley Westenra, Ennio Morricone, Roma Sinfonietta 2025–2026 Yellow Moon Andrei The Storm 2024–2025 Stay Diamonds Tris 2023–2024 Yellow Moon Andrei The Storm 2022–2023 Everybody Wants to Rule the World 2021–2022 Jennifer Lopez medley 2020–2021 2019–2020 Swing da Cor Jeux d'Eau 2018–2019 2017–2018 Experience Adiós Nonino 2016–2017 La califfa
Competitive highlights
Detailed results
Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.
ISU Personal best in bold.
Senior results
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
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