Andrea Montesinos Cantú

Andrea Montesinos Cantú
Montesinos at the 2018 Autumn Classic
Personal information
Born (2002-10-04) October 4, 2002 (age 23)
San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Figure skating career
Country Mexico
CoachJonathan Mills
Myke Gillman
Skating clubADIENL Monterrey
Began skating2007

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

Career

Early years

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: 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.[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: Mexican junior champion

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: 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.[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: 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.[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

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

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

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

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]

2024–2025 season

In August, Montesinos Cantú had surgery performed on her ankle, which required time to recover.[9] 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.[3]

2025–26 season

Montesinos Cantú started the season in August by competing at the 2025 CS Cranberry Cup International, where she finished in eighth place.[3]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2025–2026
[10]
2024–2025
[11]
2023–2024
[8]
2022–2023
[7]
2021–2022
[12]
2020–2021
[13]
2019–2020
[14]
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    choreo. by Cynthia Stuart
2018–2019
[2]
2017–2018
[6]
2016–2017
[5]

Competitive highlights

Competition placements at senior level [15]
Season 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25 2025–26
Four Continents Championships 20th 16th 18th 15th 20th
Mexican Championships 1st 2nd 1st 2nd
CS Autumn Classic 11th 10th
CS Cranberry Cup 8th
CS Cup of Tyrol C
CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 15th 20th 15th
CS Trialeti Trophy 20th
CS U.S. Classic 11th 5th 13th
Bavarian Open 14th
Challenge Cup 17th
Cranberry Cup 21st
Denkova-Staviski Cup 11th
NRW Trophy 1st
Philadelphia Summer 7th
Santa Claus Cup 1st
Skate to Milano 11th
Tayside Trophy WD
Winter World University Games 25th
Competition placements at junior level [15]
Season 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20
World Junior Championships 19th 27th 43rd 38th
Mexican Championships 1st 1st
JGP Armenia 17th
JGP Australia 12th
JGP Croatia 14th
JGP Japan 9th
JGP Slovakia 16th
JGP United States 17th
Autumn Classic 8th

Detailed results

ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System [15]
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS 148.55 2019 CS Autumn Classic International
Short program TSS 53.59 2025 ISU Skate to Milano
TES 27.87 2019 CS Autumn Classic International
PCS 26.23 2024 Four Continents Championships
Free skating TSS 96.03 2025 CS Cranberry Cup International
TES 48.13 2018 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic
PCS 52.34 2025 CS Cranberry Cup International

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

ISU Personal best in bold.

Senior results

Results in the 2018-19 season [15]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 3-5, 2018 United States 2018 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic 12 45.61 8 93.21 11 138.82
Sep 12-16, 2018 United States 2018 Philadelphia Summer International 8 35.94 6 74.58 7 110.52
Sep 20-22, 2018 Canada 2018 CS Autumn Classic International 15 43.25 10 84.90 11 128.15
Dec 5-8, 2018 Croatia 2018 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 19 45.39 17 88.91 15 134.30
Feb 7-10, 2019 United States 2019 Four Continents Championships 22 42.92 20 81.59 20 124.51
Results in the 2019-20 season [15]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 12-14, 2019 Canada 2019 CS Autumn Classic International 8 52.59 12 95.96 10 148.55
Sep 19-21 2019 United States 2019 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic 8 49.54 5 91.05 5 140.59
Dec 4-7, 2019 Croatia 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 22 40.96 17 86.49 20 127.45
Feb 4-9, 2020 South Korea 2020 Four Continents Championships 15 47.40 18 87.84 16 135.24
Results in the 2020-21 season [15]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Feb 25-28, 2021 Netherlands 2021 International Challenge Cup 13 49.29 17 71.41 17 120.70
Results in the 2021-22 season [15]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 11-15, 2021 United States 2021 Cranberry Cup International 24 34.53 21 71.97 21 106.50
Dec 7-11, 2021 Croatia 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 19 42.78 15 89.07 15 131.85
Jan 18–23, 2022 Estonia 2022 Four Continents Championships 19 47.36 18 85.67 18 133.03
Results in the 2022-23 season [15]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 12-16, 2022 United States 2022 CS U.S. Classic 12 39.86 13 63.43 13 103.29
Results in the 2023-24 season [15]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Nov 7-12, 2023 Bulgaria 2023 Denkova-Staviski Cup 13 41.16 9 89.66 11 131.12
Nov 16-19, 2023 Germany 2023 NRW Trophy 1 51.23 4 84.96 1 136.19
Nov 27 – Dec 3 2023 Mexico 2024 Mexican Championships 2 47.60 1 97.07 1 144.67
Jan 30 – Feb 4, 2024 China 2024 Four Continents Championships 16 50.86 16 92.38 15 143.24
Results in the 2024-25 season [15]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Jan 16–18, 2025 Italy 2025 Winter World University Games 25 38.07 N/a N/a 25 38.07
Jan 20–26, 2025 Germany 2025 Bavarian Open 17 35.15 14 78.76 14 13.91
Results in the 2025–26 season [15]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 7–10, 2025 United States 2025 CS Cranberry Cup International 7 50.93 8 96.03 8 146.96
Sep 18-21, 2025 China 2025 ISU Skate to Milano 10 53.59 12 94.51 11 148.10
Oct 8–11, 2025 Georgia (country) 2025 CS Trialeti Trophy 20 44.54 20 87.04 20 131.58
Nov 26-30, 2025 Hungary 2025 Santa Claus Cup 4 55.08 1 103.18 1 158.26
Jan 21-25, 2026 China. Four Continents Championships 19 48.13 21 79.84 20 127.97

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

References

  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.
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  4. ^ "Patinadora regia cautiva en Mundial Junior en Taipei". Azteca 7 (in Spanish). March 18, 2017. Archived from the original on March 16, 2019.
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  8. ^ a b "Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU: 2023/2024". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on February 2, 2024.
  9. ^ Montesinos, Andrea. "I wanted to share that I had a little procedure on my ankle... everything went well, I'm on the mend and soon I'll be back on track". Instagram. Instagram. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
  10. ^ "Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU: 2025/2026". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on September 25, 2025.
  11. ^ "Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU: 2024/2025". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on September 7, 2024.
  12. ^ "Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on January 27, 2022.
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  14. ^ "Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on September 14, 2019.
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