The 2022 NHK Trophy was the fifth event of the 2022-23 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Makomanai Ice Arena in Sapporo, Japan, from November 18-20. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2022-23 Grand Prix Final.

2022 NHK Trophy
Type:Grand Prix
Date:November 18 – 20
Season:2022–23
Location:Sapporo, Japan
Host:Japan Skating Federation
Venue:Makomanai Ice Arena
Champions
Men's singles:
Japan Shoma Uno
Women's singles:
South Korea Kim Ye-lim
Pairs:
Japan Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara
Ice dance:
Canada Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen
Navigation
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2023 NHK Trophy
Previous GP:
2022 MK John Wilson Trophy
Next GP:
2022 Grand Prix of Espoo

Entries

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The International Skating Union announced the preliminary assignments on July 22, 2022.[1][2]

Country Men[3] Women[4] Pairs[5] Ice dance[6]
  Austria Maurizio Zandron Olga Mikutina
  Canada Stephen Gogolev
Conrad Orzel
Brooke McIntosh / Benjamin Mimar Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen
  China Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu
  Estonia Eva-Lotta Kiibus
Niina Petrõkina
  Finland Yuka Orihara / Juho Pirinen
  France Adam Siao Him Fa Camille Kovalev / Pavel Kovalev Evgenia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud
  Georgia Nika Egadze
  Italy Gabriele Frangipani
Matteo Rizzo
Irma Caldara / Riccardo Maglio
  Japan Kazuki Tomono
Shoma Uno
Sōta Yamamoto
Kaori Sakamoto
Rion Sumiyoshi
Rinka Watanabe
Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi
Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto
  Lithuania Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius
  Netherlands Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba
  South Korea Cha Jun-hwan Ji Seo-yeon
Wi Seo-yeong
Kim Ye-lim
  United States Tomoki Hiwatashi Starr Andrews
Amber Glenn
Audrey Shin
Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe Madison Chock / Evan Bates
Caroline Green / Michael Parsons
Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen

Changes to preliminary assignments

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Discipline Withdrew Added Notes Ref.
Date Skater(s) Date Skater(s)
Men September 1   Sōta Yamamoto Host picks [7]
Women   Rion Sumiyoshi
Ice dance   Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto
Women September 6   Ekaterina Ryabova September 22   Eva-Lotta Kiibus Ryabova retired. [8]
Pairs October 4   Maria Chernyshova / Harley Windsor October 14   Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba Injury (Windsor) [9]
Women October 5   Wakaba Higuchi October 6   Rinka Watanabe Injury [10]
Men October 27   Jin Boyang October 27   Conrad Orzel Recovery from surgery
Pairs November 11   Jelizaveta Žuková / Martin Bidař
November 15   Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel Positive COVID-19 test (Hocke) [11]

Results

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Men's singles

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Rank Skater Nation Total points SP FS
  Shoma Uno   Japan 279.76 2 91.66 1 188.10
  Sōta Yamamoto   Japan 257.85 1 96.49 6 161.36
  Cha Jun-hwan   South Korea 254.76 6 80.35 2 174.41
4 Kazuki Tomono   Japan 251.83 4 85.07 3 166.76
5 Adam Siao Him Fa   France 250.45 3 87.44 4 163.01
6 Matteo Rizzo   Italy 240.76 7 78.57 5 162.19
7 Nika Egadze   Georgia 232.86 5 84.47 8 148.39
8 Stephen Gogolev   Canada 221.02 9 69.01 7 152.01
9 Gabriele Frangipani   Italy 212.31 10 68.78 9 143.53
10 Conrad Orzel   Canada 202.69 8 73.10 11 129.59
11 Maurizio Zandron   Austria 201.72 11 68.21 10 133.51
12 Tomoki Hiwatashi   United States 185.05 12 57.18 12 127.87

Women's singles

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Rank Skater Nation Total points SP FS
  Kim Ye-lim   South Korea 204.49 1 72.22 2 132.27
  Kaori Sakamoto   Japan 201.87 2 68.07 1 133.80
  Rion Sumiyoshi   Japan 193.12 3 68.01 4 125.11
4 Audrey Shin   United States 189.00 4 65.87 5 123.13
5 Rinka Watanabe   Japan 188.07 9 58.36 3 129.71
6 Ji Seo-yeon   South Korea 184.14 6 62.92 7 121.22
7 Niina Petrõkina   Estonia 180.29 8 58.81 6 121.48
8 Wi Seo-yeong   South Korea 176.74 7 61.06 10 115.68
9 Starr Andrews   United States 174.06 5 64.13 12 109.93
10 Olga Mikutina   Austria 173.36 10 56.95 9 116.41
11 Amber Glenn   United States 169.36 11 52.04 8 117.32
12 Eva-Lotta Kiibus   Estonia 162.37 12 48.56 11 113.81

Pairs

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Rank Team Nation Total points SP FS
  Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara   Japan 216.16 1 78.25 1 137.91
  Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe   United States 187.49 2 64.62 2 122.87
  Brooke McIntosh / Benjamin Mimar   Canada 175.65 3 62.31 3 113.34
4 Irma Caldara / Riccardo Maglio   Italy 164.23 4 58.95 5 105.28
5 Camille Kovalev / Pavel Kovalev   France 162.01 5 55.36 4 106.65
6 Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba   Netherlands 155.84 6 54.46 6 101.38

Ice dance

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Rank Team Nation Total points RD FD
  Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen   Canada 210.41 1 85.66 1 124.75
  Madison Chock / Evan Bates   United States 209.13 2 85.00 2 124.13
  Caroline Green / Michael Parsons   United States 191.10 3 77.00 4 114.10
4 Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius   Lithuania 189.98 4 75.23 3 114.75
5 Evgeniia Lopareva / Geoffrey Brissaud   France 184.63 6 72.84 5 111.79
6 Kana Muramoto / Daisuke Takahashi   Japan 178.78 5 75.10 7 103.68
7 Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu   China 174.11 7 70.32 6 103.79
8 Yuka Orihara / Juho Pirinen   Finland 168.45 9 66.47 8 101.98
9 Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto   Japan 164.30 8 66.65 9 97.65
10 Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen   United States 148.01 10 64.94 10 83.07

References

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  1. ^ "World Champions to highlight ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating events 2022/23". International Skating Union. July 22, 2022.
  2. ^ Anything GOEs [@AnythingGOEs] (July 22, 2022). "2022/23 Grand Prix Assignments" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2022: Men". International Skating Union. June 2, 2022.
  4. ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2022: Women". International Skating Union. June 2, 2022.
  5. ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2022: Pairs". International Skating Union. June 2, 2022.
  6. ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2022: Ice Dance". International Skating Union. June 2, 2022.
  7. ^ "フィギュアNHK杯の開催国枠に山本草太、住吉りをん、小松原美里、尊組". スポーツ報知 (in Japanese). 2022-09-01. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
  8. ^ Ryabova, Ekaterina [@_rina.r] (September 6, 2022). "Я завершила свою спортивную карьеру" [I completed my career in sports.] (in Russian) – via Instagram.
  9. ^ Windsor, Harley [@h_d22] (September 27, 2022). "Update. Surgery was a success!" – via Instagram.
  10. ^ @skatejapanews (October 5, 2022). "Update: Wakaba Higuchi has withdrawn from all competitions of the 2022/23 season competition. "Due to the delay in recovery from the stress fracture in late April, I decided to postpone all competitions this season, including the two GP events and Nationals."" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  11. ^ Hocke, Annika. "Withdrawal". Instagram. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
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