2022 NHK Trophy

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: Shoma Uno
Women's singles: Kim Ye-lim
Pairs: Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara
Ice dance: Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen
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Entries

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

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

Men's singles

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

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

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

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