2006 NHK Trophy

2006 NHK Trophy
Type:Grand Prix
Date:November 30 – December 3
Season:2006–07
Location:Nagano
Venue:Big Hat
Champions
Men's singles:
Japan Daisuke Takahashi
Ladies' singles:
Japan Mao Asada
Pairs:
China Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo
Ice dance:
Canada Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon
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2006 Cup of Russia
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2006–07 Grand Prix Final

The 2006 NHK Trophy was the final event of six in the 2006–07 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Big Hat in Nagano on November 30 – December 3. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2006–07 Grand Prix Final.

Results

Men

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Daisuke Takahashi  Japan 247.93 1 84.44 1 163.49
2 Nobunari Oda  Japan 244.56 2 83.55 2 161.01
3 Takahiko Kozuka  Japan 208.34 4 67.95 3 140.39
4 Li Chengjiang  China 191.32 3 69.26 4 122.06
5 Alexander Uspenski  Russia 183.36 6 64.63 5 118.73
6 Kevin van der Perren  Belgium 178.90 5 65.55 7 113.35
7 Patrick Chan  Canada 174.34 8 60.80 6 113.54
8 Wu Jialiang  China 169.22 9 56.39 8 112.83
9 Kristoffer Berntsson  Sweden 169.00 7 63.95 9 105.05
10 Geoffry Varner  United States 150.79 11 52.70 10 98.09
11 Marc Andre Craig  Canada 144.67 10 52.73 11 91.94

Ladies

Mao Asada (JPN) set a world record for the combined overall total (199.52) in ladies' singles.

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Mao Asada  Japan 199.52 1 69.50 1 130.02
2 Fumie Suguri  Japan 179.31 2 61.92 2 117.39
3 Yukari Nakano  Japan 160.93 3 56.86 3 104.07
4 Beatrisa Liang  United States 129.32 4 50.52 7 78.80
5 Christine Zukowski  United States 127.94 7 44.32 4 83.62
6 Fang Dan  China 127.85 6 47.78 5 80.07
7 Arina Martinova  Russia 127.23 5 48.58 8 78.65
8 Lesley Hawker  Canada 120.85 10 41.00 6 79.85
9 Kim Chae-Hwa  South Korea 117.87 8 43.92 9 73.95
10 Tuğba Karademir  Turkey 112.59 9 42.70 10 69.89
11 Jenna McCorkell  United Kingdom 97.95 11 36.70 11 61.25

Pairs

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo  China 190.97 1 65.58 1 125.39
2 Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao  China 181.87 2 63.82 2 118.05
3 Valérie Marcoux / Craig Buntin  Canada 163.37 3 55.62 3 107.75
4 Utako Wakamatsu / Jean-Sébastien Fecteau  Canada 145.41 4 53.40 4 92.01
5 Julia Vlassov / Drew Meekins  United States 135.45 6 45.96 5 89.49
6 Julia Obertas / Sergei Slavnov  Russia 132.19 5 48.62 6 83.57
7 Stacey Kemp / David King  United Kingdom 113.70 7 40.38 7 73.32
8 Mari Vartmann / Florian Just  Germany 108.24 8 37.32 9 70.92
9 Rumiana Spassova / Stanimir Todorov  Bulgaria 106.79 9 35.46 8 71.33

Ice dancing

Fourth-place finishers Meryl Davis / Charlie White (USA) made history in their free dance by earning level fours (the highest level of difficulty of an element) for all their elements in that dance. This was the first time a dance team has earned all level fours.

Rank Name Nation Total points CD OD FD
1 Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon  Canada 195.89 1 38.28 1 60.23 1 97.38
2 Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski  Russia 180.57 2 33.66 2 55.15 2 91.76
3 Melissa Gregory / Denis Petukhov  United States 177.81 3 33.62 3 54.56 3 89.63
4 Meryl Davis / Charlie White  United States 169.49 4 29.98 4 52.86 4 86.65
5 Nozomi Watanabe / Akiyuki Kido  Japan 150.27 5 28.99 6 46.90 6 74.38
6 Anna Zadorozhniuk / Sergei Verbillo  Ukraine 149.90 6 27.40 5 47.05 5 75.45
7 Trina Pratt / Todd Gilles  United States 143.56 8 26.33 7 44.49 7 72.74
8 Lauren Senft / Leif Gislason  Canada 141.16 7 26.96 8 44.26 8 69.94
9 Kamila Hájková / David Vincour  Czech Republic 124.40 10 22.60 9 39.90 11 61.90
10 Mylène Lamoureux / Michael Mee  Canada 123.51 9 24.86 11 34.75 9 63.90
11 Zsuzsanna Nagy / György Elek  Hungary 118.68 11 21.05 10 35.10 10 62.53