2023 NHK Trophy Entries

[Gia_Sesshoumaru]

Here is a place to keep track of all entries, additions, and withdrawals as the season progresses.

Entries have been updated as of November 17th.

Men

Wesley Chiu (CAN) (Added Oct 30th)
Aleksandr Selevko (EST) (Added Nov 15)
Mihhail Selevko (EST)
Luc Economides (FRA)
Nika Egadze (GEO)
Gabriele Frangipani (ITA)
Daniel Grassl (ITA) (WD Oct 26th)
Yuma Kagiyama (JPN)
Tatsuya Tsuboi (JPN) (Added Sept 7)
Shoma Uno (JPN)
Deniss Vasiljevs (LAT)
Hyeong Lee (KOR) (WD Nov 14)
Lukas Britsgchi (SUI)
Camden Pulkinen (USA)

Women

Nina Pinzarrone (BEL)
Lea Serna (FRA) (Added Nov 3)
Anastasiia Gubanova (GEO)
Nicole Schott (GER) (WD Aug 24)
Wakaba Higuchi (JPN)
Yuna Aoki (JPN) (Added Sept 7)
Mai Mihara (JPN)
Lindsay van Zundert (NED)
Yelim Kim (KOR)
Haein Lee (KOR)
Seo-yeong Wi (KOR)
Bradie Tennell (USA) (WD Nov 1)
Lindsay Thorngren (USA)
Ava Marie Zielger (USA) (Added Aug 31st)

Pairs

Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore (AUS)
Kelly Ann Laurin / Loucas Ethier (CAN)
Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin (GER) (Added Sept 8)
Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise (ITA) (Added Oct 30)
Rebecca Ghilardi / Filippo Ambrossini (ITA)
Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara (JPN) (WD Oct 30)
Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi (JPN) (Added Sept 7)
Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba (NED)
Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe (USA) (WD Oct 30)
Chelsea Liu / Balazs Nagy (USA) (Added Oct 30)
Anastasiia Smirnova / Danylo Siianytsia (USA) (WD Aug 31st)

Ice Dance

Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac (CAN)
Juulia Turkkila / Matthias Versluis (FIN)
Loicia Demougeot / Theo Mercier (FRA)
Maria Kazakova / Georgy Reviya (GEO) (WD Nov 17)
Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson (GBR)
Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri (ITA)
Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto (JPN)
Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevicius (LTU)
Emily Bratti / Ian Somerville (USA)
Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-luc Baker (USA) (WD Oct 25th)
Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov (USA) (Added Oct 26th)

 

[Gia_Sesshoumaru]

Nicole Schott (GER) has withdrawn, as expected, as she is taking a break from competition.

 

[Gia_Sesshoumaru]

Ava Marie Zielger (USA) has been added.

 

[Gia_Sesshoumaru]

Anastasia Smirnova / Danylo Siiantysia (USA) are out due to their spilt/Smirnova's retirement.

 

[ladyjane]

Nika Egadze is Georgian.

 

[Gia_Sesshoumaru]

Nika Egadze is Georgian.

Oops! I have no idea how I did that, or how I missed that. Thanks!

 

[cohkaix]

The TBD spots for NHK Trophy 2023 have been announced-

Men: Tatsuya Tsuboi
Women: Yuna Aoki
Pairs: Yuna Nagaoka/Sumitada Moriguchi

(adding: the men & women's entries were decided, based on a closed-door selection at the end of Jul; as for the pair, the team submitted a video for JSF's review)

 

[Jumping_Bean]

According to this article by the German skating fed, Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nikita Volodin will fill the vacated pairs spot.

 

[Ivana]

Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker (USA) removed from the grid as of today.

 

[labgoat]

Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker (USA) removed from the grid as of today.

Olympic ice dancers Hawayek and Baker withdraw from Grand Prix events after concussion

Olympic ice dancers Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker withdrew from both of their Grand Prix assignments Wednesday after he sustained a concussion during a fall in practice

abcnews.go.com

 

[Ivana]

Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov (USA) received the spot.

 

[ramurphy2005]

Grassl is out.

https://twitter.com/AnythingGOE/status/1717561271682257269

 

[cheerknithanson]

Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov (USA) received the spot.

So happy for them!

Edit: I wish it didn't come at the cost of an injury. Not happy an injury occurred for the replacement to happen.

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara (JPN) have withdrawn from NHK Trophy as well:
https://www.skatingjapan.or.jp/common/img/info/23gpnhk_miura_kihara.pdf

The next 10 teams on the replacement list are:

Roscher/Schuster (GER)​

Beccari/Guarise (ITA)​

Caldara/Maglio (ITA)​

Mokhova/Mokhov (USA)​

Zhang/Yang (CHN)​

Vouillamoz/Giniaux (FRA)​

Vaipan-Law/Digby (GBR)​

Gamez/Korovin (PHI)​

Piegad/Strekalin (FRA)​

Simioli/Zarbo (CZE)​

​

I'm expecting the Japanese fed to chose either of the top 2, as they often do when it comes to replacements.

 

[Ivana]

In addition to Miura/Kihara, Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe (USA) have been withdrawn as well.

Crossing my fingers for Beccari/Guarise to get one of the free spots.

 

[FlossieH]

I really hope that Beccari and Guarise get one of the spots. They would have a chance of making the GP final if they did. It would feel a bit cruel, in that context, if both spots went to other pairs.

 

[Ziotic]

I really hope that Beccari and Guarise get one of the spots. They would have a chance of making the GP final if they did. It would feel a bit cruel, in that context, if both spots went to other pairs.

Kinda like with Kaetlyn Osmond after she won SC back in like 2014.

Guarise already made a public comment about how angry he was they weren’t named already to other vacant spots

 

[FlossieH]

Kinda like with Kaetlyn Osmond after she won SC back in like 2014.

Guarise already made a public comment about how angry he was they weren’t named already to other vacant spots

I can kind of understand it for some of the others, where selecting B/G could have jeopardised the host country's chance of getting a pair into the GP final (although I don't really agree with it). Japan have no chance of having a pair qualify now that R/K have withdrawn for both GPs, so there really is no reason to not select B/G.

 

[cheerknithanson]

I hope Liu/Nagy gets one of the spots.

 

[FlossieH]

I hope Liu/Nagy gets one of the spots.

There was some discussion about this after Skate America. I said there that I hoped they would get another slot. However, they apparently aren't eligible to be selected for any of the other GPs (Skate America can lower the requirements when picking skaters from its own Federation). They needed to win one of the events in this year's challenger series events to be eligible. That is provided that the Japanese Fed follow the ISU rules in selecting the replacements. Sometimes the host federations do not do so, but I have a feeling that Japan usually does.