2023 NHK Trophy

2023 NHK Trophy
Type:Grand Prix
Date:November 24 – 26
Season:2023–24
Location:Osaka, Japan
Host:Japan Skating Federation
Venue:Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome
Champions
Men's singles:
Japan Yuma Kagiyama
Women's singles:
United States Ava Ziegler
Pairs:
Germany Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin
Ice dance:
United Kingdom Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson
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2023 Grand Prix of Espoo
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2023–24 Grand Prix Final

The 2023 NHK Trophy was the sixth event of the 2023–24 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in Osaka, Japan, from November 24–26.[1] Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2023–24 Grand Prix Final.

Entries

The International Skating Union announced the preliminary assignments on June 28, 2023.[2]

Country Men[3] Women[4] Pairs[5] Ice dance[6]
 Australia Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore
 Belgium Nina Pinzarrone
 Canada Wesley Chiu Kelly Ann Laurin / Loucas Éthier Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac
 Estonia Aleksandr Selevko
Mihhail Selevko
 Finland Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis
 France Luc Economides Léa Serna Loïcia Demougeot / Théo le Mercier
 Georgia Nika Egadze Anastasiia Gubanova
 Germany Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin
 Great Britain Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson
 Italy Gabriele Frangipani Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise
Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini 		Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri
 Japan Yuma Kagiyama
Shoma Uno
Tatsuya Tsuboi 		Yuna Aoki
Wakaba Higuchi
Mai Mihara 		Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto
 Latvia Deniss Vasiļjevs
 Lithuania Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius
 Netherlands Lindsay van Zundert Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba
 South Korea Kim Ye-lim
Lee Hae-in
Wi Seo-yeong
 Switzerland Lukas Britschgi
 United States Camden Pulkinen Lindsay Thorngren
Ava Ziegler 		Chelsea Liu / Balazs Nagy Emily Bratti / Ian Somerville
Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov

Changes to preliminary assignments

Discipline Withdrew Added Notes Ref.
Date Skater(s) Date Skater(s)
Women August 24 Germany Nicole Schott August 31 United States Ava Marie Ziegler Break from competition [7]
Pairs August 29 United States Anastasiia Smirnova / Danylo Siianytsia September 8 Germany Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin Smirnova retired. [8][9]
Men — September 6 Japan Tatsuya Tsuboi Host picks [10]
Women Japan Yuna Aoki
Pairs Japan Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi
Ice dance October 25 United States Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker October 26 United States Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov Concussion [11][12]
Men October 26 Italy Daniel Grassl October 30 Canada Wesley Chiu [13]
Pairs October 30 Japan Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara Italy Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise Injury
United States Emily Chan / Spencer Howe United States Chelsea Liu / Balazs Nagy
Women November 1 United States Bradie Tennell November 3 France Léa Serna [14]
Men November 14 South Korea Lee Si-hyeong November 15 Estonia Aleksandr Selevko
Ice dance November 17 Georgia (country) Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya — Health reasons [15]

Results

Men's singles

Rank Skater Nation Total points SP FS
1st place, gold medalist(s) Yuma Kagiyama  Japan 288.39 1 105.51 2 182.88
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Shoma Uno  Japan 286.55 2 100.20 1 186.35
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Lukas Britschgi  Switzerland 254.60 3 86.42 3 168.18
4 Nika Egadze  Georgia 237.34 7 81.30 4 156.04
5 Camden Pulkinen  United States 229.32 4 86.40 8 142.92
6 Gabriele Frangipani  Italy 227.15 8 78.20 6 148.95
7 Deniss Vasiļjevs  Latvia 221.95 5 82.14 9 139.81
8 Aleksandr Selevko  Estonia 221.43 9 75.85 7 145.58
9 Tatsuya Tsuboi  Japan 216.62 12 64.63 5 151.99
10 Luc Economides  France 211.12 10 74.24 11 136.88
11 Wesley Chiu  Canada 209.16 11 72.02 10 137.14
12 Mihhail Selevko  Estonia 207.58 6 81.31 12 126.27

Women's singles

Rank Skater Nation Total points SP FS
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ava Ziegler  United States 200.50 5 62.04 1 138.46
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Lindsay Thorngren  United States 198.73 1 68.93 3 129.80
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Nina Pinzarrone  Belgium 194.66 2 63.44 2 131.22
4 Lee Hae-in  South Korea 188.95 3 62.93 6 126.02
5 Yuna Aoki  Japan 184.46 8 58.28 5 126.18
6 Anastasiia Gubanova  Georgia 184.32 10 55.80 4 128.52
7 Kim Ye-lim  South Korea 183.19 7 59.33 7 123.86
8 Mai Mihara  Japan 172.64 4 62.82 9 109.82
9 Wakaba Higuchi  Japan 165.69 11 52.18 8 113.51
10 Wi Seo-yeong  South Korea 158.15 6 60.63 10 97.52
11 Léa Serna  France 156.04 9 56.85 11 99.19
12 Lindsay van Zundert  Netherlands 125.82 12 43.46 12 82.36

Pairs

Rank Team Nation Total points SP FS
1st place, gold medalist(s) Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin  Germany 202.51 1 67.23 1 135.28
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise  Italy 190.31 2 66.77 2 123.54
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrosini  Italy 186.47 4 62.98 3 123.49
4 Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore  Australia 185.39 3 64.61 4 120.78
5 Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba  Netherlands 177.54 6 58.61 5 118.93
6 Chelsea Liu / Balazs Nagy  United States 172.60 5 61.23 7 111.37
7 Kelly Ann Laurin / Loucas Éthier  Canada 160.79 7 49.18 6 111.61
8 Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi  Japan 135.39 8 45.36 8 90.03

Ice dance

Rank Team Nation Total points RD FD
1st place, gold medalist(s) Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson  Great Britain 215.19 2 84.93 1 130.26
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri  Italy 214.56 1 85.27 2 129.29
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius  Lithuania 196.86 3 78.71 3 118.15
4 Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis  Finland 191.01 4 74.66 4 116.35
5 Loïcia Demougeot / Théo le Mercier  France 187.76 5 73.58 5 114.18
6 Emily Bratti / Ian Somerville  United States 183.43 6 71.47 6 111.96
7 Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac  Canada 176.26 7 71.35 7 104.91
8 Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov  United States 167.84 8 65.65 9 102.19
9 Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto  Japan 167.61 9 64.12 8 103.49

References

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  4. ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2023: Women". International Skating Union.
  5. ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2023: Pairs". International Skating Union.
  6. ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2023: Ice Dance". International Skating Union.
  7. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2023/24 - Women: As of August 31, 2023". International Skating Union. August 31, 2023.
  8. ^ @smirnovasiianytsia (August 29, 2023). "Anastasiia Smirnova and Danil Siianytsia announce the end of their partnership" – via Instagram.
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  11. ^ Anything GOEs [@AnythingGOE] (25 October 2023). "Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker have withdrawn from NHK Trophy" (Tweet). Retrieved 2023-10-25 – via Twitter.
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