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.

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
Navigation
Previous:
2022 NHK Trophy
Next:
2024 NHK Trophy
Previous GP:
2023 Grand Prix of Espoo
Next GP:
2023–24 Grand Prix Final

Entries

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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

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

Results

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Men's singles

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Rank Skater Nation Total points SP FS
  Yuma Kagiyama   Japan 288.39 1 105.51 2 182.88
  Shoma Uno   Japan 286.55 2 100.20 1 186.35
  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

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Rank Skater Nation Total points SP FS
  Ava Ziegler   United States 200.50 5 62.04 1 138.46
  Lindsay Thorngren   United States 198.73 1 68.93 3 129.80
  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

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Rank Team Nation Total points SP FS
  Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin   Germany 202.51 1 67.23 1 135.28
  Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise   Italy 190.31 2 66.77 2 123.54
  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

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Rank Team Nation Total points RD FD
  Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson   Great Britain 215.19 2 84.93 1 130.26
  Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri   Italy 214.56 1 85.27 2 129.29
  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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  1. ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating NHK Trophy". International Skating Union. June 28, 2023.
  2. ^ Anything GOEs [@AnythingGOEs] (June 28, 2023). "2023/24 Grand Prix Assignments" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2023: Men". International Skating Union.
  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.
  9. ^ Lechner, Pamela (September 7, 2023). "Neues Paarlauf-Paar: Minerva Hase/Nikita Volodin starten mit Vorfreude in erste gemeinsame Saison" [New figure skating pair: Minerva Hase/Nikita Volodin start their first season together with anticipation].
  10. ^ Sponichi on Ice [@SponichiF] (September 6, 2023). "日本スケート連盟の理事会が行われ、GPシリーズNHK杯の追加選手を承認。" [The Board of Directors of the Japanese Skating Federation met and approved additional athletes for the GP Series NHK Trophy.] (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  11. ^ Anything GOEs [@AnythingGOE] (25 October 2023). "Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker have withdrawn from NHK Trophy" (Tweet). Retrieved 2023-10-25 – via Twitter.
  12. ^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  13. ^ AnythingGOEs [@AnythingGOE] (October 30, 2023). "🇮🇹 Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise and 🇺🇸 Chelsea Liu / Balazs Nagy have been assigned to NHK Trophy" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  14. ^ AnythingGOEs [@AnythingGOE] (November 1, 2023). "🇺🇸 Bradie Tennell has withdrawn from Cup of China and NHK Trophy" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  15. ^ Georgy Reviya [@georgy_reviya] (November 17, 2023). "Hello everybody! We have news" – via Instagram.