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: Yuzuru Hanyu
Ladies' singles: Satoko Miyahara
Pair skating: Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
Ice dancing: Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
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The 2015 NHK Trophy was an international figure skating competition in the 2015–16 season. Organized by the Japan Skating Federation, it was the last of six events in the 2015–16 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a series of senior-level invitational competitions.

The 2015 NHK Trophy was held in Nagano, Japan on November 27–29, 2015. 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[1][2]	Ladies[3][2]	Pairs[4]	Ice dancing[5][2]
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

• On September 9, Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed, Mariko Kihara and Keiji Tanaka were added as host picks.^[6][7][8]
• On September 24, Joshua Farris was removed from the roster.^[9] U.S. Figure Skating announced he had to withdraw due to a concussion.^[10] On September 28, his replacement was announced as Grant Hochstein.^[11]
• On November 11, Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron withdrew due to Papadakis not having fully recovered from her concussion.^[12] On November 17, Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland were announced as their replacement.^[13]
• On November 20, Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov withdrew due to an injury to Volosozhar. They were replaced by Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadji.^[14] Ice dancers Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam also withdrew.^[15] On November 21, they were replaced by Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus.^[16]
• On November 21, Jason Brown withdrew due to a back strain injury.^[17] On November 23, he was replaced by Brendan Kerry.^[18]
• On November 23, Maé-Bérénice Méité withdrew from the ladies' event.^[19]

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

1. "Entry/Resultlist - Men". ISU. 15 June 2015.
2. "NHK TBA Announced". Facebook. Facebook. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
3. "Entry/Resultlist - Ladies". ISU. 15 June 2015.
4. "Entry/Resultlist - Pairs". ISU. 15 June 2015.
5. "Entry/Resultlist - Ice dancing". ISU. 15 June 2015.
6. "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2015/16 - Ice dancing" (PDF). September 9, 2015.
7. "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating - Men" (PDF). September 9, 2015.
8. "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating - Ladies" (PDF). September 9, 2015.
9. "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2015/16 - Men" (PDF). September 24, 2015.
10. "Joshua Farris Withdraws from 2015 Grand Prix Series Events" (Press release). U.S. Figure Skating. September 25, 2015.
11. "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating - Men" (PDF). October 7, 2015.
12. "Papadakis & Cizeron, ice dancing world champs, withdraw from Grand Prix events". CBC. November 11, 2015.
13. "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2015/16 - Ice dancing" (PDF). ISU. November 17, 2015.
14. "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2015/16 - Pairs" (PDF). ISU. November 20, 2015.
15. "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2015/16 - Ice dancing" (PDF). ISU. November 20, 2015.
16. "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2015/16 - Ice dancing" (PDF). ISU. November 23, 2015.
17. "Jason Brown withdraws from NHK Trophy with back injury". ESPN. November 21, 2015.
18. "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2015/16: Men" (PDF). International Skating Union. November 23, 2015.
19. "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2015/16: Ladies" (PDF). International Skating Union. November 23, 2015.

External links

• 2015 NHK Trophy at the International Skating Union
• Starting orders and result details