The 2023 NHK Trophy was the sixth event of the 2023–24 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in Osaka, Japan, from November 24–26.[1] Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2023–24 Grand Prix Final.
| 2023 NHK Trophy | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Grand Prix |
| Date: | November 24 – 26 |
| Season: | 2023–24 |
| Location: | Osaka, Japan |
| Host: | Japan Skating Federation |
| Venue: | Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome |
| Champions | |
Men's singles:  Yuma Kagiyama | |
Women's singles:  Ava Ziegler | |
Pairs:  Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin | |
Ice dance:  Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson | |
| Previous: 2022 NHK Trophy | |
| Next: 2024 NHK Trophy | |
| Previous GP: 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo | |
| Next GP: 2023–24 Grand Prix Final | |
Entries
editThe International Skating Union announced the preliminary assignments on June 28, 2023.[2]
Changes to preliminary assignments
edit| Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Notes | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Skater(s) | Date | Skater(s) | |||
| Women | August 24 | Nicole Schott
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August 31 | Ava Marie Ziegler
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Break from competition | [7] |
| Pairs | August 29 | Anastasiia Smirnova / Danylo Siianytsia
|
September 8 | Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin
|
Smirnova retired. | [8][9] |
| Men | — | September 6 | Tatsuya Tsuboi
|
Host picks | [10] | |
| Women | Yuna Aoki
| |||||
| Pairs | Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi
| |||||
| Ice dance | October 25 | Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
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October 26 | Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov
|
Concussion | [11][12] |
| Men | October 26 |  Daniel Grassl
|
October 30 |  Wesley Chiu
|
[13] | |
| Pairs | October 30 | Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara
|
Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise
|
Injury | ||
| Emily Chan / Spencer Howe
|
Chelsea Liu / Balazs Nagy
| |||||
| Women | November 1 | Bradie Tennell
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November 3 |  Léa Serna
|
[14] | |
| Men | November 14 |  Lee Si-hyeong
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November 15 |  Aleksandr Selevko
|
||
| Ice dance | November 17 |  Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya
|
— | Health reasons | [15] | |
Results
editMen's singles
edit| Rank | Skater | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Yuma Kagiyama | Japan
|
288.39 | 1 | 105.51 | 2 | 182.88 |
|
Shoma Uno | Japan
|
286.55 | 2 | 100.20 | 1 | 186.35 |
|
Lukas Britschgi |  Switzerland
|
254.60 | 3 | 86.42 | 3 | 168.18 |
| 4 | Nika Egadze | Georgia
|
237.34 | 7 | 81.30 | 4 | 156.04 |
| 5 | Camden Pulkinen |  United States
|
229.32 | 4 | 86.40 | 8 | 142.92 |
| 6 | Gabriele Frangipani | Italy
|
227.15 | 8 | 78.20 | 6 | 148.95 |
| 7 | Deniss Vasiļjevs |  Latvia
|
221.95 | 5 | 82.14 | 9 | 139.81 |
| 8 | Aleksandr Selevko | Estonia
|
221.43 | 9 | 75.85 | 7 | 145.58 |
| 9 | Tatsuya Tsuboi | Japan
|
216.62 | 12 | 64.63 | 5 | 151.99 |
| 10 | Luc Economides | France
|
211.12 | 10 | 74.24 | 11 | 136.88 |
| 11 | Wesley Chiu | Canada
|
209.16 | 11 | 72.02 | 10 | 137.14 |
| 12 | Mihhail Selevko | Estonia
|
207.58 | 6 | 81.31 | 12 | 126.27 |
Women's singles
edit| Rank | Skater | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Ava Ziegler | United States
|
200.50 | 5 | 62.04 | 1 | 138.46 |
|
|
Lindsay Thorngren | United States
|
198.73 | 1 | 68.93 | 3 | 129.80 |
|
|
Nina Pinzarrone |  Belgium
|
194.66 | 2 | 63.44 | 2 | 131.22 |
| 4 | Lee Hae-in | South Korea
|
188.95 | 3 | 62.93 | 6 | 126.02 |
| 5 | Yuna Aoki | Japan
|
184.46 | 8 | 58.28 | 5 | 126.18 |
| 6 | Anastasiia Gubanova | Georgia
|
184.32 | 10 | 55.80 | 4 | 128.52 |
| 7 | Kim Ye-lim | South Korea
|
183.19 | 7 | 59.33 | 7 | 123.86 |
| 8 | Mai Mihara | Japan
|
172.64 | 4 | 62.82 | 9 | 109.82 |
| 9 | Wakaba Higuchi | Japan
|
165.69 | 11 | 52.18 | 8 | 113.51 |
| 10 | Wi Seo-yeong | South Korea
|
158.15 | 6 | 60.63 | 10 | 97.52 |
| 11 | Léa Serna | France
|
156.04 | 9 | 56.85 | 11 | 99.19 |
| 12 | Lindsay van Zundert |  Netherlands
|
125.82 | 12 | 43.46 | 12 | 82.36 |
Pairs
edit| Rank | Team | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin | Germany
|
202.51 | 1 | 67.23 | 1 | 135.28 |
|
|
Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise | Italy
|
190.31 | 2 | 66.77 | 2 | 123.54 |
|
|
Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini | Italy
|
186.47 | 4 | 62.98 | 3 | 123.49 |
| 4 | Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore |  Australia
|
185.39 | 3 | 64.61 | 4 | 120.78 |
| 5 | Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba | Netherlands
|
177.54 | 6 | 58.61 | 5 | 118.93 |
| 6 | Chelsea Liu / Balazs Nagy | United States
|
172.60 | 5 | 61.23 | 7 | 111.37 |
| 7 | Kelly Ann Laurin / Loucas Éthier | Canada
|
160.79 | 7 | 49.18 | 6 | 111.61 |
| 8 | Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi | Japan
|
135.39 | 8 | 45.36 | 8 | 90.03 |
Ice dance
edit| Rank | Team | Nation | Total points | RD | FD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson | Great Britain
|
215.19 | 2 | 84.93 | 1 | 130.26 |
|
|
Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri | Italy
|
214.56 | 1 | 85.27 | 2 | 129.29 |
|
|
Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius |  Lithuania
|
196.86 | 3 | 78.71 | 3 | 118.15 |
| 4 | Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis |  Finland
|
191.01 | 4 | 74.66 | 4 | 116.35 |
| 5 | Loïcia Demougeot / Théo le Mercier | France
|
187.76 | 5 | 73.58 | 5 | 114.18 |
| 6 | Emily Bratti / Ian Somerville | United States
|
183.43 | 6 | 71.47 | 6 | 111.96 |
| 7 | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac | Canada
|
176.26 | 7 | 71.35 | 7 | 104.91 |
| 8 | Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov | United States
|
167.84 | 8 | 65.65 | 9 | 102.19 |
| 9 | Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto | Japan
|
167.61 | 9 | 64.12 | 8 | 103.49 |
References
edit- ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating NHK Trophy". International Skating Union. June 28, 2023.
- ^ Anything GOEs [@AnythingGOEs] (June 28, 2023). "2023/24 Grand Prix Assignments" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2023: Men". International Skating Union.
- ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2023: Women". International Skating Union.
- ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2023: Pairs". International Skating Union.
- ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2023: Ice Dance". International Skating Union.
- ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2023/24 - Women: As of August 31, 2023". International Skating Union. August 31, 2023.
- ^ @smirnovasiianytsia (August 29, 2023). "Anastasiia Smirnova and Danil Siianytsia announce the end of their partnership" – via Instagram.
- ^ Lechner, Pamela (September 7, 2023). "Neues Paarlauf-Paar: Minerva Hase/Nikita Volodin starten mit Vorfreude in erste gemeinsame Saison" [New figure skating pair: Minerva Hase/Nikita Volodin start their first season together with anticipation].
- ^ Sponichi on Ice [@SponichiF] (September 6, 2023). "日本スケート連盟の理事会が行われ、GPシリーズNHK杯の追加選手を承認。" [The Board of Directors of the Japanese Skating Federation met and approved additional athletes for the GP Series NHK Trophy.] (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Anything GOEs [@AnythingGOE] (25 October 2023). "Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker have withdrawn from NHK Trophy" (Tweet). Retrieved 2023-10-25 – via Twitter.
- ^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
- ^ AnythingGOEs [@AnythingGOE] (October 30, 2023). "🇮🇹 Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise and 🇺🇸 Chelsea Liu / Balazs Nagy have been assigned to NHK Trophy" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ AnythingGOEs [@AnythingGOE] (November 1, 2023). "🇺🇸 Bradie Tennell has withdrawn from Cup of China and NHK Trophy" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Georgy Reviya [@georgy_reviya] (November 17, 2023). "Hello everybody! We have news" – via Instagram.