The 2016 NHK Trophy was the final event of six in the 2016–17 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Makomanai Sekisuiheim Ice Arena in Sapporo on November 25–27. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2016–17 Grand Prix Final.

2016 NHK Trophy
Type:Grand Prix
Date:November 25 – 27
Season:2016–17
Location:Sapporo
Host:Japan Skating Federation
Venue:Makomanai Sekisuiheim Ice Arena
Champions
Men's singles:
Japan Yuzuru Hanyu
Ladies' singles:
Russia Anna Pogorilaya
Pairs:
Canada Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
Ice dance:
Canada Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
Navigation
Previous:
2015 NHK Trophy
Next:
2017 NHK Trophy
Previous GP:
2016 Cup of China
Next GP:
2016–17 Grand Prix Final

Entries edit

The ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 30, 2016.[1][2][3][4]

Country Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing
  Austria Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer
  Canada Elladj Baldé
Nam Nguyen
Alaine Chartrand Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
  China Peng Cheng / Jin Yang
Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei
  France Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac
Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
  Germany Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert
  Israel Oleksii Bychenko
  Italy Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte
  Japan Yuzuru Hanyu
Ryuju Hino
Keiji Tanaka
Wakaba Higuchi
Yura Matsuda
Satoko Miyahara
Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau-Audet Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion
Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed
  Kazakhstan Elizabet Tursynbayeva
  Latvia Deniss Vasiļjevs
  Poland Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev
  South Korea Choi Da-bin
  Russia Mikhail Kolyada Anna Pogorilaya
Maria Sotskova
Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov
  Slovakia Nicole Rajičová
  United States Jason Brown
Nathan Chen
Grant Hochstein
Karen Chen
Mirai Nagasu
Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus
Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker

Changes to initial assignments edit

Date Discipline Withdrew Added Reason/Other notes Refs
August 26 Pairs N/A   Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer Host pick [5]
September 1 and 13 Ice dancing   Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland   Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus Injury (Coomes) [6][7]
September 13 and 20 Men   Adian Pitkeev   Deniss Vasiļjevs Injury [8]
October 17 and 31 Pairs   Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov   Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert [9][10]
October 27
November 11
Men   Sota Yamamoto   Ryuju Hino Injury [11][12]
November 7 and 10 Ladies   Polina Edmunds   Choi Da-bin [13][14]
November 17 Pairs   Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro Not replaced
November 22 Men   Ivan Righini Not replaced
November 22 Ladies   Alena Leonova Not replaced

Results edit

Men edit

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Yuzuru Hanyu   Japan 301.47 1 103.89 1 197.58
2 Nathan Chen   United States 268.91 2 87.94 2 180.97
3 Keiji Tanaka   Japan 248.44 3 80.49 3 167.95
4 Oleksii Bychenko   Israel 229.87 7 75.13 4 154.74
5 Mikhail Kolyada   Russia 225.69 4 78.18 6 147.51
6 Deniss Vasiļjevs   Latvia 223.73 10 70.50 5 153.23
7 Jason Brown   United States 218.47 8 74.33 7 144.14
8 Nam Nguyen   Canada 212.43 6 75.33 8 137.10
9 Ryuju Hino   Japan 207.15 9 72.50 9 134.65
10 Elladj Baldé   Canada 195.32 5 76.29 11 119.03
11 Grant Hochstein   United States 191.40 11 68.31 10 123.09

Ladies edit

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Anna Pogorilaya   Russia 210.86 1 71.56 1 139.30
2 Satoko Miyahara   Japan 198.00 3 64.20 2 133.80
3 Maria Sotskova   Russia 195.88 2 69.96 3 125.92
4 Wakaba Higuchi   Japan 185.39 5 62.58 4 122.81
5 Mirai Nagasu   United States 180.33 4 63.49 8 116.84
6 Karen Chen   United States 178.45 7 58.76 5 119.69
7 Yura Matsuda   Japan 178.26 6 60.98 7 117.28
8 Elizabet Tursynbayeva   Kazakhstan 175.11 9 55.66 6 119.45
9 Choi Da-bin   South Korea 165.63 11 51.06 9 114.57
10 Alaine Chartrand   Canada 160.22 8 58.72 11 101.50
11 Nicole Rajičová   Slovakia 159.70 10 53.43 10 106.27

Pairs edit

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford   Canada 204.56 2 72.95 1 131.61
2 Peng Cheng / Jin Yang   China 196.87 1 73.33 2 123.54
3 Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei   China 185.32 3 65.66 3 119.66
4 Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea   United States 172.20 5 57.02 4 115.18
5 Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert   Germany 170.70 4 61.23 6 109.47
6 Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer   Austria 161.91 7 52.19 5 109.72
7 Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau-Audet   Japan 161.85 6 52.65 7 109.20

Ice dancing edit

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir set a new world record for the short dance (79.47 points) and for the combined total (195.84 points).

Rank Name Nation Total points SD FD
1 Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir   Canada 195.84 1 79.47 1 116.37
2 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron   France 186.66 2 75.60 2 111.06
3 Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte   Italy 180.42 3 72.00 3 108.42
4 Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker   United States 169.75 5 65.41 4 104.34
5 Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov   Russia 169.62 4 68.85 5 100.77
6 Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac   France 149.99 7 58.21 6 91.78
7 Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev   Poland 147.93 6 59.92 7 88.01
8 Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus   United States 139.47 8 52.66 8 86.81
9 Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion   Japan 120.35 9 49.37 9 70.98
WD Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed   Japan withdrew withdrew from competition

References edit

  1. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2016/17: Men" (PDF). International Skating Union. 30 June 2016.
  2. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2016/17: Ladies" (PDF). International Skating Union. 30 June 2016.
  3. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2016/17: Ladies" (PDF). International Skating Union. 30 June 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  4. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2016/17: Ice Dance" (PDF). International Skating Union. 30 June 2016.
  5. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2016/17: Pairs" (PDF). International Skating Union. 26 August 2016.
  6. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2016/17: Ice Dance" (PDF). International Skating Union. 1 September 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  7. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2016/17: Ice Dance" (PDF). International Skating Union. 13 September 2016.
  8. ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2016: Men at the International Skating Union". Archived from the original on 2016-09-13. Retrieved 2016-09-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  9. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2016/17: Pairs" (PDF). International Skating Union. 17 October 2016.
  10. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2016/17: Pairs" (PDF). International Skating Union. 31 October 2016.
  11. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2016/17: Men" (PDF). International Skating Union. 27 October 2016.
  12. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2016/17: Men" (PDF). International Skating Union. 11 November 2016.
  13. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2016/17: Ladies" (PDF). International Skating Union. 7 November 2016.
  14. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2016/17: Ladies" (PDF). International Skating Union. 10 November 2016.

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