2015 NHK Trophy explained

2015 NHK Trophy
Comptype:	Grand Prix
Startdate:	November 27
Enddate:	29
Skatingseason:	2015–16
Location:	Nagano
Host:	Japan Skating Federation
Venue:	Big Hat
Championmen:	Yuzuru Hanyu
Championladies:	Satoko Miyahara
Championpairs:	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
Championdance:	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
Previouscomp:	2014 NHK Trophy
Nextcomp:	2016 NHK Trophy
Previousgp:	2015 Rostelecom Cup
Nextgp:	2015–16 Grand Prix Final

The 2015 NHK Trophy was the final event of six in the 2015–16 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Big Hat in Nagano on November 27–29. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2015–16 Grand Prix Final.

Entries

Men^[1]	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
Brendan Kerry
Elladj Baldé	Kaetlyn Osmond	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch
Jin Boyang	Li Zijun	Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang
Michal Březina
Chafik Besseghier		Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès
		Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadji	Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland
Yuzuru Hanyu Takahito Mura Keiji Tanaka	Mao Asada Mariko Kihara Satoko Miyahara		Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed
Maxim Kovtun Konstantin Menshov	Maria Artemieva Alena Leonova Anna Pogorilaya	Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
Richard Dornbush Grant Hochstein	Courtney Hicks Mirai Nagasu Ashley Wagner	Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani

Changes to preliminary assignments

On September 9, Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed, Mariko Kihara and Keiji Tanaka were added as host picks.
On September 24, Joshua Farris was removed from the roster. U.S. Figure Skating announced he had to withdraw due to a concussion. On September 28, his replacement was announced as Grant Hochstein.
On November 11, Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron withdrew due to Papadakis not having fully recovered from her concussion. On November 17, Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland were announced as their replacement.
On November 20, Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov withdrew due to an injury to Volosozhar. They were replaced by Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadji. Ice dancers Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam also withdrew. On November 21, they were replaced by Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus.
On November 21, Jason Brown withdrew due to a back strain injury. On November 23, he was replaced by Brendan Kerry.
On November 23, Maé-Bérénice Méité withdrew from the ladies' event.

Results

Men

Yuzuru Hanyu set a new world record for the short program (106.33), for the free skating (216.07), and for the combined total (322.40). He became the first person to have broken 200-point in the free skating and 300-point in the combined total as well as 100-point in the short program (2014 Winter Olympics).

Rank	Name	Total points
1	Yuzuru Hanyu	322.40	1	106.33	1	216.07
2	Jin Boyang	266.43	2	95.64	2	170.79
3	Takahito Mura	242.21	3	88.29	5	153.92
4	Grant Hochstein	235.63	8	74.30	3	161.33
5	Keiji Tanaka	234.90	9	73.74	4	161.16
6	Konstantin Menshov	233.58	6	79.79	6	153.79
7	Michal Březina	222.49	5	81.64	9	140.85
8	Richard Dornbush	217.50	7	78.20	10	139.30
9	Chafik Besseghier	215.82	10	72.51	7	143.31
10	Maxim Kovtun	212.63	4	82.27	11	130.36
11	Elladj Baldé	211.09	11	69.47	8	141.62
12	Brendan Kerry	177.98	12	61.20	12	116.78

Ladies

Rank	Name	Total points
1	Satoko Miyahara	203.11	1	69.53	1	133.58
2	Courtney Hicks	183.12	2	65.60	3	117.52
3	Mao Asada	182.99	4	62.50	2	120.49
4	Ashley Wagner	179.33	3	63.71	5	115.62
5	Mirai Nagasu	175.64	5	61.10	6	114.54
6	Kaetlyn Osmond	168.48	8	57.07	7	111.41
7	Li Zijun	166.40	6	60.78	10	105.62
8	Alena Leonova	165.75	7	59.63	9	106.12
9	Anna Pogorilaya	164.63	11	47.35	4	117.28
10	Mariko Kihara	163.19	10	54.96	8	108.23
11	Maria Artemieva	158.33	9	55.68	11	102.65

Pairs

Rank	Name	Total points
1	Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford	202.72	1	71.04	1	131.68
2	Yu Xiaoyu / Jin Yang	191.02	3	67.00	2	124.02
3	Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim	190.66	2	68.43	3	122.23
4	Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat	181.70	4	64.06	5	117.64
5	Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch	180.63	5	63.80	6	116.83
6	Vanessa James / Morgan Ciprès	180.20	6	61.91	4	118.29
7	Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu	150.26	7	55.19	7	95.07
8	Amani Fancy / Christopher Boyadji	125.80	8	42.52	8	83.28

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Total points
1	Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani	174.43	1	68.08	1	106.35
2	Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev	169.33	3	66.19	2	103.14
3	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue	167.49	2	66.57	3	100.92
4	Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin	160.64	4	61.96	4	98.68
5	Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland	155.88	5	61.00	5	94.88
6	Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus	138.41	6	55.21	6	83.2
7	Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed	134.97	7	53.44	7	81.53
8	Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion	115.59	8	43.61	8	71.98

External links

2015 NHK Trophy at the International Skating Union
Starting orders and result details

Notes and References

Web site: NHK TBA Announced. Facebook. Facebook. 7 September 2015.