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

1. Mittan, Barry (November 10, 2006). "Lady from Monterrey". SkateToday.

External links

• Ana Cecilia Cantu at the International Skating Union