2006 NHK Trophy explained

2006 NHK Trophy
Comptype:Grand Prix
Startdate:November 30
Enddate:December 3
Skatingseason:2006–07
Location:Nagano
Venue:Big Hat
Championmen: Daisuke Takahashi
Championladies: Mao Asada
Championpairs: Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo
Championdance: Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon
Previouscomp:2005 NHK Trophy
Nextcomp:2007 NHK Trophy
Previousgp:2006 Cup of Russia
Nextgp:2006–07 Grand Prix Final

The 2006 NHK Trophy was the final event of six in the 2006–07 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Big Hat in Nagano on November 30 – December 3. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2006–07 Grand Prix Final.

Results

Men

RankNameNationTotal pointsSPFS
1247.93 1 84.44 1 163.49
2244.56 2 83.55 2 161.01
3208.34 4 67.95 3 140.39
4191.32 3 69.26 4 122.06
5183.36 6 64.63 5 118.73
6178.90 5 65.55 7 113.35
7174.34 8 60.80 6 113.54
8169.22 9 56.39 8 112.83
9169.00 7 63.95 9 105.05
10Geoffry Varner 150.79 11 52.70 10 98.09
11144.67 10 52.73 11 91.94

Ladies

Mao Asada (JPN) set a world record for the combined overall total (199.52) in ladies' singles.

RankNameNationTotal pointsSPFS
1199.52 1 69.50 1 130.02
2179.31 2 61.92 2 117.39
3160.93 3 56.86 3 104.07
4129.32 4 50.52 7 78.80
5127.94 7 44.32 4 83.62
6127.85 6 47.78 5 80.07
7127.23 5 48.58 8 78.65
8120.85 10 41.00 6 79.85
9117.87 8 43.92 9 73.95
10112.59 9 42.70 10 69.89
1197.95 11 36.70 11 61.25

Pairs

RankNameNationTotal pointsSPFS
1190.97 1 65.58 1 125.39
2181.87 2 63.82 2 118.05
3163.37 3 55.62 3 107.75
4145.41 4 53.40 4 92.01
5135.45 6 45.96 5 89.49
6132.19 5 48.62 6 83.57
7113.70 7 40.38 7 73.32
8108.24 8 37.32 9 70.92
9106.79 9 35.46 8 71.33

Ice dancing

Fourth-place finishers Meryl Davis / Charlie White (USA) made history in their free dance by earning level fours (the highest level of difficulty of an element) for all their elements in that dance. This was the first time a dance team has earned all level fours.

RankNameNationTotal pointsCDODFD
1195.89 1 38.28 1 60.23 1 97.38
2180.57 2 33.66 2 55.15 2 91.76
3177.81 3 33.62 3 54.56 3 89.63
4169.49 4 29.98 4 52.86 4 86.65
5150.27 5 28.99 6 46.90 6 74.38
6149.90 6 27.40 5 47.05 5 75.45
7143.56 8 26.33 7 44.49 7 72.74
8Lauren Senft / Leif Gislason 141.16 7 26.96 8 44.26 8 69.94
9124.40 10 22.60 9 39.90 11 61.90
10Mylène Lamoureux / Michael Mee 123.51 9 24.86 11 34.75 9 63.90
11118.68 11 21.05 10 35.10 10 62.53

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