# 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.

## Entries

The International Skating Union announced the preliminary assignments on July 22, 2022.
| Country | Men | Women | Pairs | Ice dance |
| 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 | Withdrew | Added | Added | Notes | Ref. |
| Discipline | Date | Skater(s) | Date | Skater(s) | Notes | Ref. |
| Men | — | — | September 1 | Sōta Yamamoto | Host picks | |
| Women | — | — | September 1 | Rion Sumiyoshi | Host picks | |
| Ice dance | — | — | September 1 | Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto | Host picks | |
| Women | September 6 | Ekaterina Ryabova | September 22 | Eva-Lotta Kiibus | Ryabova retired. | |
| Pairs | October 4 | Maria Chernyshova / Harley Windsor | October 14 | Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba | Injury (Windsor) | |
| Women | October 5 | Wakaba Higuchi | October 6 | Rinka Watanabe | Injury | |
| Men | October 27 | Jin Boyang | October 27 | Conrad Orzel | Recovery from surgery | |
| Pairs | November 11 | Jelizaveta Žuková / Martin Bidař | — | — | | |
| Pairs | November 15 | Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel | — | — | Positive COVID-19 test (Hocke) | |

## Results
### Men's singles

| Rank | Skater | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | 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 | SP | FS | 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 | SP | FS | 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 | RD | FD | 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 |