The 2022 NHK Trophy was the fifth event of the 2022-23 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Makomanai Ice Arena in Sapporo, Japan, from November 18-20. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2022-23 Grand Prix Final.
| 2022 NHK Trophy | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Grand Prix |
| Date: | November 18 – 20 |
| Season: | 2022–23 |
| Location: | Sapporo, Japan |
| Host: | Japan Skating Federation |
| Venue: | Makomanai Ice Arena |
| Champions | |
Men's singles:  Shoma Uno | |
Women's singles:  Kim Ye-lim | |
| Pairs: Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara | |
Ice dance:  Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen | |
| Previous: 2021 NHK Trophy | |
| Next: 2023 NHK Trophy | |
| Previous GP: 2022 MK John Wilson Trophy | |
| Next GP: 2022 Grand Prix of Espoo | |
Entries
editThe International Skating Union announced the preliminary assignments on July 22, 2022.[1][2]
Changes to preliminary assignments
edit| Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Notes | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Skater(s) | Date | Skater(s) | |||
| Men | — | September 1 | Sōta Yamamoto
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Host picks | [7] | |
| Women | Rion Sumiyoshi
| |||||
| Ice dance | Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto
| |||||
| Women | September 6 |  Ekaterina Ryabova
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September 22 |  Eva-Lotta Kiibus
|
Ryabova retired. | [8] |
| Pairs | October 4 |  Maria Chernyshova / Harley Windsor
|
October 14 |  Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba
|
Injury (Windsor) | [9] |
| Women | October 5 | Wakaba Higuchi
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October 6 | Rinka Watanabe
|
Injury | [10] |
| Men | October 27 |  Jin Boyang
|
October 27 | Conrad Orzel
|
Recovery from surgery | |
| Pairs | November 11 |  Jelizaveta Žuková / Martin Bidař
|
— | |||
| November 15 |  Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel
|
Positive COVID-19 test (Hocke) | [11] | |||
Results
editMen's singles
edit| Rank | Skater | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Shoma Uno | Japan
|
279.76 | 2 | 91.66 | 1 | 188.10 |
|
Sōta Yamamoto | Japan
|
257.85 | 1 | 96.49 | 6 | 161.36 |
|
Cha Jun-hwan | South Korea
|
254.76 | 6 | 80.35 | 2 | 174.41 |
| 4 | Kazuki Tomono | Japan
|
251.83 | 4 | 85.07 | 3 | 166.76 |
| 5 | Adam Siao Him Fa |  France
|
250.45 | 3 | 87.44 | 4 | 163.01 |
| 6 | Matteo Rizzo |  Italy
|
240.76 | 7 | 78.57 | 5 | 162.19 |
| 7 | Nika Egadze |  Georgia
|
232.86 | 5 | 84.47 | 8 | 148.39 |
| 8 | Stephen Gogolev | Canada
|
221.02 | 9 | 69.01 | 7 | 152.01 |
| 9 | Gabriele Frangipani | Italy
|
212.31 | 10 | 68.78 | 9 | 143.53 |
| 10 | Conrad Orzel | Canada
|
202.69 | 8 | 73.10 | 11 | 129.59 |
| 11 | Maurizio Zandron |  Austria
|
201.72 | 11 | 68.21 | 10 | 133.51 |
| 12 | Tomoki Hiwatashi |  United States
|
185.05 | 12 | 57.18 | 12 | 127.87 |
Women's singles
edit| Rank | Skater | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Kim Ye-lim | South Korea
|
204.49 | 1 | 72.22 | 2 | 132.27 |
|
|
Kaori Sakamoto | Japan
|
201.87 | 2 | 68.07 | 1 | 133.80 |
|
|
Rion Sumiyoshi | Japan
|
193.12 | 3 | 68.01 | 4 | 125.11 |
| 4 | Audrey Shin | United States
|
189.00 | 4 | 65.87 | 5 | 123.13 |
| 5 | Rinka Watanabe | Japan
|
188.07 | 9 | 58.36 | 3 | 129.71 |
| 6 | Ji Seo-yeon | South Korea
|
184.14 | 6 | 62.92 | 7 | 121.22 |
| 7 | Niina Petrõkina | Estonia
|
180.29 | 8 | 58.81 | 6 | 121.48 |
| 8 | Wi Seo-yeong | South Korea
|
176.74 | 7 | 61.06 | 10 | 115.68 |
| 9 | Starr Andrews | United States
|
174.06 | 5 | 64.13 | 12 | 109.93 |
| 10 | Olga Mikutina | Austria
|
173.36 | 10 | 56.95 | 9 | 116.41 |
| 11 | Amber Glenn | United States
|
169.36 | 11 | 52.04 | 8 | 117.32 |
| 12 | Eva-Lotta Kiibus | Estonia
|
162.37 | 12 | 48.56 | 11 | 113.81 |
Pairs
edit| Rank | Team | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara | Japan
|
216.16 | 1 | 78.25 | 1 | 137.91 |
|
|
Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe | United States
|
187.49 | 2 | 64.62 | 2 | 122.87 |
|
|
Brooke McIntosh / Benjamin Mimar | Canada
|
175.65 | 3 | 62.31 | 3 | 113.34 |
| 4 | Irma Caldara / Riccardo Maglio | Italy
|
164.23 | 4 | 58.95 | 5 | 105.28 |
| 5 | Camille Kovalev / Pavel Kovalev | France
|
162.01 | 5 | 55.36 | 4 | 106.65 |
| 6 | Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba | Netherlands
|
155.84 | 6 | 54.46 | 6 | 101.38 |
Ice dance
edit| Rank | Team | Nation | Total points | RD | FD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen | Canada
|
210.41 | 1 | 85.66 | 1 | 124.75 |
|
|
Madison Chock / Evan Bates | United States
|
209.13 | 2 | 85.00 | 2 | 124.13 |
|
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Caroline Green / Michael Parsons | United States
|
191.10 | 3 | 77.00 | 4 | 114.10 |
| 4 | Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius |  Lithuania
|
189.98 | 4 | 75.23 | 3 | 114.75 |
| 5 | Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud | France
|
184.63 | 6 | 72.84 | 5 | 111.79 |
| 6 | Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi | Japan
|
178.78 | 5 | 75.10 | 7 | 103.68 |
| 7 | Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu | China
|
174.11 | 7 | 70.32 | 6 | 103.79 |
| 8 | Yuka Orihara / Juho Pirinen |  Finland
|
168.45 | 9 | 66.47 | 8 | 101.98 |
| 9 | Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto | Japan
|
164.30 | 8 | 66.65 | 9 | 97.65 |
| 10 | Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen | United States
|
148.01 | 10 | 64.94 | 10 | 83.07 |
References
edit- ^ "World Champions to highlight ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating events 2022/23". International Skating Union. July 22, 2022.
- ^ Anything GOEs [@AnythingGOEs] (July 22, 2022). "2022/23 Grand Prix Assignments" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2022: Men". International Skating Union. June 2, 2022.
- ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2022: Women". International Skating Union. June 2, 2022.
- ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2022: Pairs". International Skating Union. June 2, 2022.
- ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2022: Ice Dance". International Skating Union. June 2, 2022.
- ^ "フィギュアＮＨＫ杯の開催国枠に山本草太、住吉りをん、小松原美里、尊組". スポーツ報知 (in Japanese). 2022-09-01. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
- ^ Ryabova, Ekaterina [@_rina.r] (September 6, 2022). "Я завершила свою спортивную карьеру" [I completed my career in sports.] (in Russian) – via Instagram.
- ^ Windsor, Harley [@h_d22] (September 27, 2022). "Update. Surgery was a success!" – via Instagram.
- ^ @skatejapanews (October 5, 2022). "Update: Wakaba Higuchi has withdrawn from all competitions of the 2022/23 season competition. "Due to the delay in recovery from the stress fracture in late April, I decided to postpone all competitions this season, including the two GP events and Nationals."" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Hocke, Annika. "Withdrawal". Instagram. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
External links
edit- NHK Trophy at the International Skating Union
- Official website (in Japanese)
- Results