The 1997 NHK Trophy was the final event of six in the 1997–98 ISU Champions Series, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held in Nagano on November 27–30. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 1997–98 Champions Series Final.
Results Men Rank Name Nation TFP SP FS 1 Ilia Kulik 1.5 1 1 2 Scott Davis 4.5 5 2 3 Guo Zhengxin 5.0 4 3 4 Dan Hollander 6.0 2 5 5 Thierry Cerez 8.5 9 4 6 Takeshi Honda 8.5 3 7 7 Andrejs Vlascenko 9.5 7 6 8 Dmitri Dmitrenko 12.0 8 8 9 Makoto Okazaki 13.0 6 10 10 Yamato Tamura 14.0 10 9 11 Jean-Francois Hebert 17.0 12 11 12 Roman Skorniakov 17.5 11 12
Ladies Rank Name Nation TFP SP FS 1 Tanja Szewczenko 2.5 3 1 2 Maria Butyrskaya 2.5 1 2 3 Chen Lu 4.0 2 3 4 Vanessa Gusmeroli 6.5 5 4 5 Fumie Suguri 8.5 7 5 6 Shizuka Arakawa 9.0 6 6 7 Tatiana Malinina 11.5 9 7 8 Elena Liashenko 12.0 4 10 9 Hanae Yokoya 13.0 10 8 10 Yulia Vorobieva 13.0 8 9 11 Joanne Carter 17.5 13 11 12 Angela Derochie 18.0 12 12 13 Sydne Vogel 18.5 11 13
Pairs Rank Name Nation TFP SP FS 1 Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo 2.5 3 1 2 Jenni Meno / Todd Sand 2.5 1 2 3 Peggy Schwarz / Mirko Müller 5.0 4 3 4 Evgenia Filonenko / Igor Marchenko 6.5 5 4 5 Maria Petrova / Teimuraz Poulin 8.0 6 5 6 Danielle McGrath / Stephen Carr 9.5 7 6 7 Samantha Marchant / Chad Hawse 11.0 8 7 8 Marie Arai / Shin Amano 12.5 9 8 WD Oksana Kazakova / Artur Dmitriev 2
Ice dancing Rank Name Nation TFP CD OD FD 1 Oksana Grishuk / Evgeni Platov 2.0 1 1 1 2 Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz 4.0 2 2 2 3 Barbara Fusar-Poli / Maurizio Margaglio 6.0 3 3 3 4 Sylwia Novak / Sebastian Kolasiński 8.0 4 4 4 5 Kateřina Mrázová / Martin Šimeček 10.0 5 5 5 6 Elizaveta Stekolnikova / Dmitri Kazarlyga 12.0 6 6 6 7 Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovsky 14.0 7 7 7 8 Isabelle Deloebel / Olivier Schoenfelder 16.0 8 8 8 9 Kate Robinson / Peter Breen 18.0 9 9 9 10 Aya Kawai / Hiroshi Tanaka 20.0 10 10 10 11 Nozomi Watanabe / Akiyuki Kido 23.0 12 12 11 12 Zhang Weina / Cao Xianming 23.0 11 11 12
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