The 2015 NHK Trophy was the final event of six in the 2015–16 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Big Hat in Nagano on November 27–29. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2015–16 Grand Prix Final.
Entries Country Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing Brendan Kerry Elladj Baldé Kaetlyn Osmond Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch Jin Boyang Li Zijun Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang Michal Březina Chafik Besseghier Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadji Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland Yuzuru Hanyu Takahito Mura Keiji Tanaka Mao Asada Mariko Kihara Satoko Miyahara Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed Maxim Kovtun Konstantin Menshov Maria Artemieva Alena Leonova Anna Pogorilaya Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin Richard Dornbush Grant Hochstein Courtney Hicks Mirai Nagasu Ashley Wagner Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
Changes to preliminary assignments On September 9, Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed, Mariko Kihara and Keiji Tanaka were added as host picks. On September 24, Joshua Farris was removed from the roster. U.S. Figure Skating announced he had to withdraw due to a concussion. On September 28, his replacement was announced as Grant Hochstein. On November 11, Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron withdrew due to Papadakis not having fully recovered from her concussion. On November 17, Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland were announced as their replacement. On November 20, Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov withdrew due to an injury to Volosozhar. They were replaced by Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadji. Ice dancers Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam also withdrew. On November 21, they were replaced by Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus. On November 21, Jason Brown withdrew due to a back strain injury. On November 23, he was replaced by Brendan Kerry. On November 23, Maé-Bérénice Méité withdrew from the ladies' event.
Results Men Yuzuru Hanyu set a new world record for the short program (106.33), for the free skating (216.07), and for the combined total (322.40). He became the first person to have broken 200-point in the free skating and 300-point in the combined total as well as 100-point in the short program (2014 Winter Olympics).
Rank Name Nation Total points 1 Yuzuru Hanyu 322.40 1 106.33 1 216.07 2 Jin Boyang 266.43 2 95.64 2 170.79 3 Takahito Mura 242.21 3 88.29 5 153.92 4 Grant Hochstein 235.63 8 74.30 3 161.33 5 Keiji Tanaka 234.90 9 73.74 4 161.16 6 Konstantin Menshov 233.58 6 79.79 6 153.79 7Michal Březina 222.49 5 81.64 9 140.85 8Richard Dornbush 217.50 7 78.20 10 139.30 9 Chafik Besseghier 215.82 10 72.51 7 143.31 10 Maxim Kovtun 212.63 4 82.27 11 130.36 11 Elladj Baldé 211.09 11 69.47 8 141.62 12 Brendan Kerry 177.98 12 61.20 12 116.78
Ladies Rank Name Nation Total points 1 Satoko Miyahara 203.11 1 69.53 1 133.58 2 Courtney Hicks 183.12 2 65.60 3 117.52 3 Mao Asada 182.99 4 62.50 2 120.49 4 Ashley Wagner 179.33 3 63.71 5 115.62 5 Mirai Nagasu 175.64 5 61.10 6 114.54 6 Kaetlyn Osmond 168.48 8 57.07 7 111.41 7 Li Zijun 166.40 6 60.78 10 105.62 8 Alena Leonova 165.75 7 59.63 9 106.12 9 Anna Pogorilaya 164.63 11 47.35 4 117.28 10 Mariko Kihara 163.19 10 54.96 8 108.23 11 Maria Artemieva 158.33 9 55.68 11 102.65
Pairs Rank Name Nation Total points 1 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford 202.72 1 71.04 1 131.68 2 Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang 191.02 3 67.00 2 124.02 3 Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim 190.66 2 68.43 3 122.23 4 Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat 181.70 4 64.06 5 117.64 5 Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch 180.63 5 63.80 6 116.83 6 Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès 180.20 6 61.91 4 118.29 7 Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu 150.26 7 55.19 7 95.07 8 Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadji 125.80 8 42.52 8 83.28
Ice dancing Rank Name Nation Total points 1 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani 174.43 1 68.08 1 106.35 2 Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev 169.33 3 66.19 2 103.14 3 Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue 167.49 2 66.57 3 100.92 4 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin 160.64 4 61.96 4 98.68 5 Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland 155.88 5 61.00 5 94.88 6 Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus 138.41 6 55.21 6 83.2 7 Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed 134.97 7 53.44 7 81.53 8 Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion 115.59 8 43.61 8 71.98
References
External links 2015 NHK Trophy at the International Skating Union Starting orders and result details