Ana Cecilia Cantu
| Ana Cecilia Cantu | |
|---|---|
 Cantu performing "Beetlejuice." | |
| Personal information | |
| Country represented |
 Mexico |
| Born | September 14, 1985 |
| Height | 1.56 m (5 ft 1 1⁄2 in) |
| Coach | Vladimir Petrenko |
| Former coach |
Edgar Beckley Doris Beckley Galina Zmievskaya |
| Choreographer |
Mark Hird David Wilson |
| Skating club | Ice Complex, in Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon, MEXICO. |
| ISU personal best scores | |
| Combined total |
108.75 2009 Four Continents |
| Short program |
44.82 2009 Four Continents |
| Free skate |
65.63 2010 Four Continents |
Ana Cecilia Cantu Felix (born September 14, 1985) is a Mexican figure skater from Monterrey, Mexico.
She is a four time National champion (2002–2003, 2006-2007, 2007–2008, 2008–2009). She has represented Mexico in one Junior World Championship (2003), and four World Championships (2003, 2007, 2009, 2010). In the 2009 World Figure Skating Championships in Los Angeles, she became the first Mexican to qualify to the final round. She is to-date still the only one to have ever achieve a final.
At the 2003 Four Continent Championships, Cantu's bag with her skates was stolen after the Short Program. She was able to finish the competition with the skates of her teammate Ingrid Roth, who had not qualified for the Free Skating, and was able to lend her skates to Cantu.
Ana Cecilia's programs were choreographed by David Wilson, Mark Hird, Michele Cantu and Shawn Sawyer. On her last season as a single skater she was coached by Vladimir Petrenko and trained at the International Skating Center of Connecticut, in Simsbury, Connecticut, U.S.A., and Ice Complex, in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, Mexico. Her younger sister Michele Cantu was also an elite senior-level skater.[1]
Cantu is the creator of the sit spin variation called AC-Sit.
She started, skated on and coached the first synchronized skating team that represented Mexico in a World Synchronized Skating Championships, in 2013.
Results
| National | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event | 1997–98 | 1998–99 | 1999–00 | 2000–01 | 2001–02 | 2002–03 | 2003–04 | 2004–05 | 2005–06 | 2006–07 | 2007–08 | 2008–09 | 2009–10 | 2012–13 |
| Worlds | 39th | 42nd | 24th | 42nd | ||||||||||
| Four Continents | 20th | 22nd | 18th | 17th | 18th | 17th | 17th | |||||||
| Merano Cup | 5th | |||||||||||||
| Nebelhorn | 18th | 18th | 22nd | |||||||||||
| U.S. Classic | 13th | |||||||||||||
| International: Junior | ||||||||||||||
| Junior Worlds | 37th | |||||||||||||
| JGP Germany | 18th | |||||||||||||
| JGP Sweden | 24th | |||||||||||||
| JGP USA | 14th | |||||||||||||
| National | ||||||||||||||
| Mexican Champ. | 2nd J. | 2nd J. | 2nd J. | 1st J. | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 1st | ||||
| JGP = Junior Grand Prix | ||||||||||||||
References
- ↑ Mittan, Barry (November 10, 2006). "Lady from Monterrey". SkateToday.
External links
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