The 2019 NHK Trophy was the sixth event of the 2019–20 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at Makomanai Ice Arena in Sapporo, Japan from November 22–24. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2019–20 Grand Prix Final.

Entries The ISU announced the preliminary assignments on June 20, 2019.

Country Men Ladies Pairs Ice dance Kailani Craine Conrad OrzelRoman Sadovsky Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus Sui Wenjing / Han Cong Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu Kévin Aymoz Maé-Bérénice Méité Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson Alexei Bychenko Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri Yuzuru HanyuKoshiro ShimadaSōta Yamamoto Rika KihiraMako YamashitaYuhana Yokoi Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara Makar IgnatovAnton ShulepovSergei Voronov Alena KostornaiaSofia SamodurovaAlina Zagitova Alisa Efimova / Alexander KorovinAnastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov Sofia Shevchenko / Igor EremenkoAlexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin Lim Eun-soo Jason BrownTomoki Hiwatashi Starr AndrewsKaren ChenMegan Wessenberg Tarah Kayne / Danny O'SheaAlexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim Christina Carreira / Anthony PonomarenkoLorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter

Changes to preliminary assignments Discipline Withdrew Added Notes Date Skater(s) Date Skater(s) Men rowspan="2" colspan="2" August 1 Koshiro Shimada Host picks Ladies Yuhana Yokoi Men August 15 Artur Dmitriev August 23 Anton Shulepov Recovery Pairs September 13 Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès September 17 Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin Personal reasons colspan="2" Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara Host picks Men October 2 Mikhail Kolyada October 9 Makar Ignatov Surgery Ladies October 9 Ting Cui October 14 Megan Wessenberg Injury November 5 Viveca Lindfors November 6 Kailani Craine Ice dance November 14 Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto colspan="2" Recovery

Records

The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:

Event Component Skater(s) Score Date Ref Ice dance Rhythm dance Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron 90.03November 22, 2019 PairsShort program Sui Wenjing / Han Cong 81.27 Ladies Alena Kostornaia 85.04 Ice dance Free dance Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron 136.58November 23, 2019 Total score 226.61

Results Men Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Yuzuru Hanyu 305.05 1 109.34 1 195.71 2 Kévin Aymoz 250.02 2 91.47 3 158.55 3 Roman Sadovsky 247.50 4 78.51 2 168.99 4 Sergei Voronov 239.05 3 88.63 6 150.42 5 Jason Brown 231.37 8 73.73 4 157.54 6 Sōta Yamamoto 226.27 7 74.88 5 151.39 7 Makar Ignatov 222.45 5 78.47 8 143.98 8 Anton Shulepov 218.38 9 71.76 7 146.62 9 Koshiro Shimada 213.65 6 75.98 10 137.67 10 Tomoki Hiwatashi 207.30 11 64.54 9 142.76 11 Alexei Bychenko 197.63 12 61.97 11 135.66 12 Conrad Orzel 196.34 10 70.35 12 125.99

Ladies The minutes before the free skating turned into chaos when Alena Kostornaia was not in the arena in time and her team led by coach Eteri Tutberidze was unable to make a contact with her. At the last moment, it turned out Kostornaia was sleeping in the hotel. Using a taxi she arrived after an off-ice warm-up, but won anyway ahead of Rika Kihira and Alina Zagitova. Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Alena Kostornaia 240.00 1 85.04 1 154.96 2 Rika Kihira 231.84 2 79.89 2 151.95 3 Alina Zagitova 217.99 4 66.84 3 151.15 4 Yuhana Yokoi 189.54 8 62.67 4 126.87 5 Mako Yamashita 189.25 5 65.70 5 123.55 6 Sofia Samodurova 183.27 7 63.85 6 119.42 7 Lim Eun-soo 172.47 6 65.28 10 107.19 8 Starr Andrews 166.72 9 58.92 9 107.80 9 Karen Chen 165.70 3 67.21 11 98.49 10 Kailani Craine 165.46 10 55.82 8 109.64 11 Maé-Bérénice Méité 159.98 11 49.77 7 110.21 12 Megan Wessenberg 131.73 12 44.78 12 86.95

Pairs Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS 1 Sui Wenjing / Han Cong 226.96 1 81.27 1 145.69 2 Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro 208.49 2 71.21 2 137.28 3 Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov 203.35 3 69.00 3 134.35 4 Alisa Efimova / Alexander Korovin 189.34 4 64.94 4 124.40 5 Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara 179.94 6 62.41 6 117.53 6 Tarah Kayne / Danny O'Shea 178.73 7 58.70 5 120.03 7 Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim 173.33 5 63.63 8 109.70 8 Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise 171.43 8 57.55 7 113.88

Ice dance

Rank Name Nation Total points RD FD 1 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron 226.61 1 90.03 1 136.58 2 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin 208.81 2 84.07 2 124.74 3 Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri 198.06 3 82.13 4 115.93 4 Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson 193.01 4 76.09 3 116.92 5 Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu 183.11 6 74.73 6 108.38 6 Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko 182.26 5 75.25 7 107.01 7 Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko 178.08 7 69.59 5 108.49 8 Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus 172.01 9 68.39 8 103.62 9 Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter 170.21 8 68.80 9 101.41

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