2015 NHK Trophy

2015 NHK Trophy
Type:Grand Prix
Date:November 27 – 29
Season:2015–16
Location:Nagano
Host:Japan Skating Federation
Venue:Big Hat
Champions
Men's singles:
Japan Yuzuru Hanyu
Ladies' singles:
Japan Satoko Miyahara
Pairs:
Canada Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
Ice dance:
United States Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
Navigation
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2014 NHK Trophy
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2016 NHK Trophy
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2015 Rostelecom Cup
Next Grand Prix:
2015–16 Grand Prix Final

The 2015 NHK Trophy was the final event of six in the 2015–16 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Big Hat in Nagano on November 27–29. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2015–16 Grand Prix Final.

Entries

Country Men Ladies Pairs Ice dancing
 Australia Brendan Kerry
 Canada Elladj Baldé Kaetlyn Osmond Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch
 China Jin Boyang Li Zijun Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang
 Czech Republic Michal Březina
 France Chafik Besseghier Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès
 United Kingdom Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadji Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland
 Japan Yuzuru Hanyu
Takahito Mura
Keiji Tanaka		 Mao Asada
Mariko Kihara
Satoko Miyahara		 Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion
Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed
 Russia Maxim Kovtun
Konstantin Menshov		 Maria Artemieva
Alena Leonova
Anna Pogorilaya		 Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev
Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
 United States Richard Dornbush
Grant Hochstein		 Courtney Hicks
Mirai Nagasu
Ashley Wagner		 Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu
Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim		 Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus
Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani

Changes to preliminary assignments

Results

Men

Yuzuru Hanyu set a new world record for the short program (106.33), for the free skating (216.07), and for the combined total (322.40). He became the first person to have broken 200-point in the free skating and 300-point in the combined total as well as 100-point in the short program (2014 Winter Olympics).

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Yuzuru Hanyu  Japan 322.40 1 106.33 1 216.07
2 Jin Boyang  China 266.43 2 95.64 2 170.79
3 Takahito Mura  Japan 242.21 3 88.29 5 153.92
4 Grant Hochstein  United States 235.63 8 74.30 3 161.33
5 Keiji Tanaka  Japan 234.90 9 73.74 4 161.16
6 Konstantin Menshov  Russia 233.58 6 79.79 6 153.79
7 Michal Březina  Czech Republic 222.49 5 81.64 9 140.85
8 Richard Dornbush  United States 217.50 7 78.20 10 139.30
9 Chafik Besseghier  France 215.82 10 72.51 7 143.31
10 Maxim Kovtun  Russia 212.63 4 82.27 11 130.36
11 Elladj Baldé  Canada 211.09 11 69.47 8 141.62
12 Brendan Kerry  Australia 177.98 12 61.20 12 116.78

Ladies

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Satoko Miyahara  Japan 203.11 1 69.53 1 133.58
2 Courtney Hicks  United States 183.12 2 65.60 3 117.52
3 Mao Asada  Japan 182.99 4 62.50 2 120.49
4 Ashley Wagner  United States 179.33 3 63.71 5 115.62
5 Mirai Nagasu  United States 175.64 5 61.10 6 114.54
6 Kaetlyn Osmond  Canada 168.48 8 57.07 7 111.41
7 Li Zijun  China 166.40 6 60.78 10 105.62
8 Alena Leonova  Russia 165.75 7 59.63 9 106.12
9 Anna Pogorilaya  Russia 164.63 11 47.35 4 117.28
10 Mariko Kihara  Japan 163.19 10 54.96 8 108.23
11 Maria Artemieva  Russia 158.33 9 55.68 11 102.65

Pairs

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford  Canada 202.72 1 71.04 1 131.68
2 Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang  China 191.02 3 67.00 2 124.02
3 Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim  United States 190.66 2 68.43 3 122.23
4 Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat  Russia 181.70 4 64.06 5 117.64
5 Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch  Canada 180.63 5 63.80 6 116.83
6 Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès  France 180.20 6 61.91 4 118.29
7 Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu  United States 150.26 7 55.19 7 95.07
8 Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadji  United Kingdom 125.80 8 42.52 8 83.28

Ice dancing

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani  United States 174.43 1 68.08 1 106.35
2 Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev  Russia 169.33 3 66.19 2 103.14
3 Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue  United States 167.49 2 66.57 3 100.92
4 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin  Russia 160.64 4 61.96 4 98.68
5 Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland  United Kingdom 155.88 5 61.00 5 94.88
6 Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus  United States 138.41 6 55.21 6 83.2
7 Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed  Japan 134.97 7 53.44 7 81.53
8 Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion  Japan 115.59 8 43.61 8 71.98

References

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