2023 NHK Trophy

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: Yuma Kagiyama
Women's singles: Ava Ziegler
Pairs: Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin
Ice dance: Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson
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Entries

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

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

Men's singles

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

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

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

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