Andrea Montesinos Cantú

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).

BornOctober 4, 2002 (age 23)

San Pedro Garza García, Mexico

Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)

Country

Mexico

CoachJonathan Mills
Myke Gillman

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Andrea Montesinos Cantú
Personal information
Montesinos at the 2018 Autumn Classic
Born	(2002-10-04) October 4, 2002 (age 23) San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Figure skating career

Country	Mexico
Coach	Jonathan Mills Myke Gillman
Skating club	ADIENL Monterrey
Began skating	2007

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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: 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.^[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]

In January, she finished in 20th place at the 2026 Four Continents. ^[10]

Programs

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Season	Short program	Free skating
2025–2026 ^[11]	Yellow Moon by Luca D'Alberto Andrei by Martin Phipps choreo. by Benoit Richaud	The Storm by Balázs Havasi choreo. by David Wilson
2024–2025 ^[12]	Stay by Rihanna & Mikky Ekko Diamonds by Rihanna choreo. by Benoit Richaud	Tris (from Divergent) by Junkie XL & Ellie Goulding choreo. by Mark Pillay
2023–2024 ^[8]	Yellow Moon by Luca D'Alberto Andrei by Martin Phipps choreo. by Benoit Richaud	The Storm by Balázs Havasi choreo. by David Wilson
2022–2023 ^[7]		Everybody Wants to Rule the World (from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) performed by Lorde choreo. by Shae-Lynn Bourne
2021–2022 ^[13]	Jennifer Lopez medley choreo. by Adam Rippon
2020–2021 ^[14]	Jennifer Lopez medley choreo. by Adam Rippon
2019–2020 ^[15]	Swing da Cor by Daniela Mercury choreo. by Nadia Kanaeva	Jeux d'Eau (from O) choreo. by Cynthia Stuart
2018–2019 ^[2]	Swing da Cor by Daniela Mercury choreo. by Nadia Kanaeva	Jeux d'Eau (from O) choreo. by Cynthia Stuart
2017–2018 ^[6]	Experience by Ludovico Einaudi choreo. by Nikolai Morozov	Adiós Nonino by Astor Piazzolla choreo. by Nikolai Morozov
2016–2017 ^[5]	La califfa by Ennio Morricone choreo. by Nikolai Morozov	Adiós Nonino by Astor Piazzolla choreo. by Nikolai Morozov

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Competitive highlights

JGP – Event of the ISU Junior Grand Prix Series
CS – Event of the ISU Challenger Series
TBD – Assigned
WD – Withdrew from competition
C – Cancelled

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Competition placements at senior level ^[16]
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

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Competition placements at junior level ^[16]
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

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Detailed results

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ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System ^[16]
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

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

ISU Personal best in bold.