2023 NHK Trophy explained

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.

Entries

The International Skating Union announced the preliminary assignments on June 28, 2023.^[2]

Country	Men[3]	Women[4]	Pairs[5]	Ice dance[6]
			Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore
		Nina Pinzarrone
	Wesley Chiu		Kelly Ann Laurin / Loucas Éthier	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac
	Aleksandr Selevko Mihhail Selevko
				Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis
	Luc Economides	Léa Serna		Loïcia Demougeot / Théo le Mercier
	Nika Egadze	Anastasiia Gubanova
			Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin
				Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson
	Gabriele Frangipani		Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
	Yuma Kagiyama Shoma Uno Tatsuya Tsuboi	Yuna Aoki Wakaba Higuchi Mai Mihara	Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi	Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto
	Deniss Vasiļjevs
				Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius
		Lindsay van Zundert	Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba
		Kim Ye-lim Lee Hae-in Wi Seo-yeong
	Lukas Britschgi
	Camden Pulkinen	Lindsay Thorngren Ava Ziegler	Chelsea Liu / Balazs Nagy	Emily Bratti / Ian Somerville Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov

Changes to preliminary assignments

Discipline	Withdrew	Added	Notes
Date	Skater(s)	Date	Skater(s)
Women	August 24	Nicole Schott	August 31	Ava Marie Ziegler	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	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	November 3	Léa Serna		[14]
Men	November 14	Lee Si-hyeong	November 15	Aleksandr Selevko
Ice dance	November 17	Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya	Health reasons	[15]

Results

Men's singles

Rank	Skater	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
	Yuma Kagiyama		288.39	1	105.51	2	182.88
	Shoma Uno		286.55	2	100.20	1	186.35
	Lukas Britschgi		254.60	3	86.42	3	168.18
4	Nika Egadze		237.34	7	81.30	4	156.04
5	Camden Pulkinen		229.32	4	86.40	8	142.92
6	Gabriele Frangipani		227.15	8	78.20	6	148.95
7	Deniss Vasiļjevs		221.95	5	82.14	9	139.81
8	Aleksandr Selevko		221.43	9	75.85	7	145.58
9	Tatsuya Tsuboi		216.62	12	64.63	5	151.99
10	Luc Economides		211.12	10	74.24	11	136.88
11	Wesley Chiu		209.16	11	72.02	10	137.14
12	Mihhail Selevko		207.58	6	81.31	12	126.27

Women's singles

Rank	Skater	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
	Ava Ziegler		200.50	5	62.04	1	138.46
	Lindsay Thorngren		198.73	1	68.93	3	129.80
	Nina Pinzarrone		194.66	2	63.44	2	131.22
4	Lee Hae-in		188.95	3	62.93	6	126.02
5	Yuna Aoki		184.46	8	58.28	5	126.18
6	Anastasiia Gubanova		184.32	10	55.80	4	128.52
7	Kim Ye-lim		183.19	7	59.33	7	123.86
8	Mai Mihara		172.64	4	62.82	9	109.82
9	Wakaba Higuchi		165.69	11	52.18	8	113.51
10	Wi Seo-yeong		158.15	6	60.63	10	97.52
11	Léa Serna		156.04	9	56.85	11	99.19
12	Lindsay van Zundert		125.82	12	43.46	12	82.36

Pairs

Rank	Team	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
	Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin		202.51	1	67.23	1	135.28
	Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise		190.31	2	66.77	2	123.54
	Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini		186.47	4	62.98	3	123.49
4	Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore		185.39	3	64.61	4	120.78
5	Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba		177.54	6	58.61	5	118.93
6	Chelsea Liu / Balazs Nagy		172.60	5	61.23	7	111.37
7	Kelly Ann Laurin / Loucas Éthier		160.79	7	49.18	6	111.61
8	Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi		135.39	8	45.36	8	90.03

Ice dance

Rank	Team	Nation	Total points	RD		FD
	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson		215.19	2	84.93	1	130.26
	Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri		214.56	1	85.27	2	129.29
	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius		196.86	3	78.71	3	118.15
4	Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis		191.01	4	74.66	4	116.35
5	Loïcia Demougeot / Théo le Mercier		187.76	5	73.58	5	114.18
6	Emily Bratti / Ian Somerville		183.43	6	71.47	6	111.96
7	Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac		176.26	7	71.35	7	104.91
8	Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov		167.84	8	65.65	9	102.19
9	Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto		167.61	9	64.12	8	103.49

Notes and References

1. Web site: ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating NHK Trophy. International Skating Union. June 28, 2023.
2. 1674055944261468161. AnythingGOEs. 2023/24 Grand Prix Assignments. Anything GOEs. June 28, 2023.
3. Web site: ISU GP NHK Trophy 2023: Men. International Skating Union.
4. Web site: ISU GP NHK Trophy 2023: Women. International Skating Union.
5. Web site: ISU GP NHK Trophy 2023: Pairs. International Skating Union.
6. Web site: ISU GP NHK Trophy 2023: Ice Dance. International Skating Union.
7. Web site: ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2023/24 - Women: As of August 31, 2023 . August 31, 2023 . International Skating Union.
8. smirnovasiianytsia . CwgzvheLRFU . Anastasiia Smirnova and Danil Siianytsia announce the end of their partnership. . August 29, 2023.
9. News: Lechner . Pamela . 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 . September 7, 2023.
10. 1699300154904621301. SponichiF. 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.. Sponichi on Ice. September 6, 2023.
11. Anything GOEs. AnythingGOE. 25 October 2023 . Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker have withdrawn from NHK Trophy . 1717123545484947813 . 2023-10-25.
12. Web site: Instagram . 2023-10-25 . www.instagram.com.
13. 1719034208725631004 . Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise and Chelsea Liu / Balazs Nagy have been assigned to NHK Trophy . AnythingGOE . AnythingGOEs.
14. AnythingGOE . November 1, 2023 . Bradie Tennell has withdrawn from Cup of China and NHK Trophy . 1719749090248995325 . AnythingGOEs.
15. CzvckRQoqDR . georgy_reviya . Hello everybody! We have news. . Georgy Reviya . November 17, 2023.