# 2016 NHK Trophy

The 2016 NHK Trophy was the final event of six in the 2016–17 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Makomanai Sekisuiheim Ice Arena in Sapporo on November 25–27. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2016–17 Grand Prix Final.

## Entries

The ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 30, 2016.
| Country | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| Austria | | | Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer | |
| Canada | Elladj Baldé Nam Nguyen | Alaine Chartrand | Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir |
| China | | | Peng Cheng / Jin Yang Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei | |
| France | | | | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron |
| Germany | | | Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert | |
| Israel | Oleksii Bychenko | | | |
| Italy | | | | Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte |
| Japan | Yuzuru Hanyu Ryuju Hino Keiji Tanaka | Wakaba Higuchi Yura Matsuda Satoko Miyahara | Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau-Audet | Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed |
| Kazakhstan | | Elizabet Tursynbayeva | | |
| Latvia | Deniss Vasiļjevs | | | |
| Poland | | | | Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev |
| South Korea | | Choi Da-bin | | |
| Russia | Mikhail Kolyada | Anna Pogorilaya Maria Sotskova | | Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov |
| Slovakia | | Nicole Rajičová | | |
| United States | Jason Brown Nathan Chen Grant Hochstein | Karen Chen Mirai Nagasu | Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea | Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker |

### Changes to initial assignments

| Date | Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Reason/Other notes |
| August 26 | Pairs | N/A | Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer | Host pick |
| September 1 and 13 | Ice dancing | Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland | Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus | Injury (Coomes) |
| September 13 and 20 | Men | Adian Pitkeev | Deniss Vasiļjevs | Injury |
| October 17 and 31 | Pairs | Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov | Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert | |
| October 27 November 11 | Men | Sota Yamamoto | Ryuju Hino | Injury |
| November 7 and 10 | Ladies | Polina Edmunds | Choi Da-bin | |
| November 17 | Pairs | Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro | Not replaced | |
| November 22 | Men | Ivan Righini | Not replaced | |
| November 22 | Ladies | Alena Leonova | Not replaced | |

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Yuzuru Hanyu | Japan | 301.47 | 1 | 103.89 | 1 | 197.58 |
| 2 | Nathan Chen | United States | 268.91 | 2 | 87.94 | 2 | 180.97 |
| 3 | Keiji Tanaka | Japan | 248.44 | 3 | 80.49 | 3 | 167.95 |
| 4 | Oleksii Bychenko | Israel | 229.87 | 7 | 75.13 | 4 | 154.74 |
| 5 | Mikhail Kolyada | Russia | 225.69 | 4 | 78.18 | 6 | 147.51 |
| 6 | Deniss Vasiļjevs | Latvia | 223.73 | 10 | 70.50 | 5 | 153.23 |
| 7 | Jason Brown | United States | 218.47 | 8 | 74.33 | 7 | 144.14 |
| 8 | Nam Nguyen | Canada | 212.43 | 6 | 75.33 | 8 | 137.10 |
| 9 | Ryuju Hino | Japan | 207.15 | 9 | 72.50 | 9 | 134.65 |
| 10 | Elladj Baldé | Canada | 195.32 | 5 | 76.29 | 11 | 119.03 |
| 11 | Grant Hochstein | United States | 191.40 | 11 | 68.31 | 10 | 123.09 |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Anna Pogorilaya | Russia | 210.86 | 1 | 71.56 | 1 | 139.30 |
| 2 | Satoko Miyahara | Japan | 198.00 | 3 | 64.20 | 2 | 133.80 |
| 3 | Maria Sotskova | Russia | 195.88 | 2 | 69.96 | 3 | 125.92 |
| 4 | Wakaba Higuchi | Japan | 185.39 | 5 | 62.58 | 4 | 122.81 |
| 5 | Mirai Nagasu | United States | 180.33 | 4 | 63.49 | 8 | 116.84 |
| 6 | Karen Chen | United States | 178.45 | 7 | 58.76 | 5 | 119.69 |
| 7 | Yura Matsuda | Japan | 178.26 | 6 | 60.98 | 7 | 117.28 |
| 8 | Elizabet Tursynbayeva | Kazakhstan | 175.11 | 9 | 55.66 | 6 | 119.45 |
| 9 | Choi Da-bin | South Korea | 165.63 | 11 | 51.06 | 9 | 114.57 |
| 10 | Alaine Chartrand | Canada | 160.22 | 8 | 58.72 | 11 | 101.50 |
| 11 | Nicole Rajičová | Slovakia | 159.70 | 10 | 53.43 | 10 | 106.27 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford | Canada | 204.56 | 2 | 72.95 | 1 | 131.61 |
| 2 | Peng Cheng / Jin Yang | China | 196.87 | 1 | 73.33 | 2 | 123.54 |
| 3 | Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei | China | 185.32 | 3 | 65.66 | 3 | 119.66 |
| 4 | Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea | United States | 172.20 | 5 | 57.02 | 4 | 115.18 |
| 5 | Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert | Germany | 170.70 | 4 | 61.23 | 6 | 109.47 |
| 6 | Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer | Austria | 161.91 | 7 | 52.19 | 5 | 109.72 |
| 7 | Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau-Audet | Japan | 161.85 | 6 | 52.65 | 7 | 109.20 |

### Ice dancing

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir set a new world record for the short dance (79.47 points) and for the combined total (195.84 points).
| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SD | SD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | Canada | 195.84 | 1 | 79.47 | 1 | 116.37 |
| 2 | Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron | France | 186.66 | 2 | 75.60 | 2 | 111.06 |
| 3 | Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte | Italy | 180.42 | 3 | 72.00 | 3 | 108.42 |
| 4 | Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker | United States | 169.75 | 5 | 65.41 | 4 | 104.34 |
| 5 | Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov | Russia | 169.62 | 4 | 68.85 | 5 | 100.77 |
| 6 | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac | France | 149.99 | 7 | 58.21 | 6 | 91.78 |
| 7 | Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev | Poland | 147.93 | 6 | 59.92 | 7 | 88.01 |
| 8 | Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus | United States | 139.47 | 8 | 52.66 | 8 | 86.81 |
| 9 | Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion | Japan | 120.35 | 9 | 49.37 | 9 | 70.98 |
| WD | Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed | Japan | withdrew | withdrew from competition | withdrew from competition | withdrew from competition | withdrew from competition |