The 2016 NHK Trophy was the final event of six in the 2016–17 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Makomanai Sekisuiheim Ice Arena in Sapporo on November 25–27. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2016–17 Grand Prix Final.
Entries The ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 30, 2016.
Country Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer Elladj Baldé Nam Nguyen Alaine Chartrand Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir Peng Cheng / Jin Yang Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert Oleksii Bychenko Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte Yuzuru Hanyu Ryuju Hino Keiji Tanaka Wakaba Higuchi Yura Matsuda Satoko Miyahara Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau-Audet Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed Elizabet Tursynbayeva Deniss Vasiļjevs Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev Choi Da-bin Mikhail Kolyada Anna Pogorilaya Maria Sotskova Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov Nicole Rajičová Jason Brown Nathan Chen Grant Hochstein Karen Chen Mirai Nagasu Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
Changes to initial assignments Date Discipline Withdrew Added Reason/Other notes Refs August 26 Pairs N/A Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer Host pick September 1 and 13 Ice dancing Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus Injury (Coomes) September 13 and 20 Men Adian Pitkeev Deniss Vasiļjevs Injury October 17 and 31 Pairs Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert October 27 November 11 Men Sota Yamamoto Ryuju Hino Injury November 7 and 10 Ladies Polina Edmunds Choi Da-bin November 17 Pairs Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro Not replaced November 22 Men Ivan Righini Not replaced November 22 Ladies Alena Leonova Not replaced
Results Men Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Yuzuru Hanyu 301.47 1 103.89 1 197.58 2 Nathan Chen 268.91 2 87.94 2 180.97 3 Keiji Tanaka 248.44 3 80.49 3 167.95 4 Oleksii Bychenko 229.87 7 75.13 4 154.74 5 Mikhail Kolyada 225.69 4 78.18 6 147.51 6 Deniss Vasiļjevs 223.73 10 70.50 5 153.23 7 Jason Brown 218.47 8 74.33 7 144.14 8 Nam Nguyen 212.43 6 75.33 8 137.10 9 Ryuju Hino 207.15 9 72.50 9 134.65 10 Elladj Baldé 195.32 5 76.29 11 119.03 11 Grant Hochstein 191.40 11 68.31 10 123.09
Ladies Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Anna Pogorilaya 210.86 1 71.56 1 139.30 2 Satoko Miyahara 198.00 3 64.20 2 133.80 3 Maria Sotskova 195.88 2 69.96 3 125.92 4 Wakaba Higuchi 185.39 5 62.58 4 122.81 5 Mirai Nagasu 180.33 4 63.49 8 116.84 6 Karen Chen 178.45 7 58.76 5 119.69 7 Yura Matsuda 178.26 6 60.98 7 117.28 8 Elizabet Tursynbayeva 175.11 9 55.66 6 119.45 9 Choi Da-bin 165.63 11 51.06 9 114.57 10 Alaine Chartrand 160.22 8 58.72 11 101.50 11 Nicole Rajičová 159.70 10 53.43 10 106.27
Pairs Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford 204.56 2 72.95 1 131.61 2 Peng Cheng / Jin Yang 196.87 1 73.33 2 123.54 3 Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei 185.32 3 65.66 3 119.66 4 Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea 172.20 5 57.02 4 115.18 5 Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert 170.70 4 61.23 6 109.47 6 Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer 161.91 7 52.19 5 109.72 7 Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau-Audet 161.85 6 52.65 7 109.20
Ice dancing Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir set a new world record for the short dance (79.47 points) and for the combined total (195.84 points).
Rank Name Nation Total points SD FD 1 Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir 195.84 1 79.47 1 116.37 2 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron 186.66 2 75.60 2 111.06 3 Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte 180.42 3 72.00 3 108.42 4 Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker 169.75 5 65.41 4 104.34 5 Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov 169.62 4 68.85 5 100.77 6 Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac 149.99 7 58.21 6 91.78 7 Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev 147.93 6 59.92 7 88.01 8 Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus 139.47 8 52.66 8 86.81 9 Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion 120.35 9 49.37 9 70.98 Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed colspan=4
References
External links 2016 NHK Trophy at the International Skating Union