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.

2006 NHK Trophy
Type:Grand Prix
Date:November 30 – December 3
Season:2006–07
Location:Nagano
Venue:Big Hat
Champions
Men's singles:
Japan Daisuke Takahashi
Ladies' singles:
Japan Mao Asada
Pairs:
China Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo
Ice dance:
Canada Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon
Navigation
Previous:
2005 NHK Trophy
Next:
2007 NHK Trophy
Previous GP:
2006 Cup of Russia
Next GP:
2006–07 Grand Prix Final

Results

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Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Daisuke Takahashi   Japan 247.93 1 84.44 1 163.49
2 Nobunari Oda   Japan 244.56 2 83.55 2 161.01
3 Takahiko Kozuka   Japan 208.34 4 67.95 3 140.39
4 Li Chengjiang   China 191.32 3 69.26 4 122.06
5 Alexander Uspenski   Russia 183.36 6 64.63 5 118.73
6 Kevin van der Perren   Belgium 178.90 5 65.55 7 113.35
7 Patrick Chan   Canada 174.34 8 60.80 6 113.54
8 Wu Jialiang   China 169.22 9 56.39 8 112.83
9 Kristoffer Berntsson   Sweden 169.00 7 63.95 9 105.05
10 Geoffry Varner   United States 150.79 11 52.70 10 98.09
11 Marc Andre Craig   Canada 144.67 10 52.73 11 91.94

Ladies

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

Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Mao Asada   Japan 199.52 1 69.50 1 130.02
2 Fumie Suguri   Japan 179.31 2 61.92 2 117.39
3 Yukari Nakano   Japan 160.93 3 56.86 3 104.07
4 Beatrisa Liang   United States 129.32 4 50.52 7 78.80
5 Christine Zukowski   United States 127.94 7 44.32 4 83.62
6 Fang Dan   China 127.85 6 47.78 5 80.07
7 Arina Martinova   Russia 127.23 5 48.58 8 78.65
8 Lesley Hawker   Canada 120.85 10 41.00 6 79.85
9 Kim Chae-Hwa   South Korea 117.87 8 43.92 9 73.95
10 Tuğba Karademir   Turkey 112.59 9 42.70 10 69.89
11 Jenna McCorkell   United Kingdom 97.95 11 36.70 11 61.25

Pairs

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Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS
1 Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo   China 190.97 1 65.58 1 125.39
2 Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao   China 181.87 2 63.82 2 118.05
3 Valérie Marcoux / Craig Buntin   Canada 163.37 3 55.62 3 107.75
4 Utako Wakamatsu / Jean-Sébastien Fecteau   Canada 145.41 4 53.40 4 92.01
5 Julia Vlassov / Drew Meekins   United States 135.45 6 45.96 5 89.49
6 Julia Obertas / Sergei Slavnov   Russia 132.19 5 48.62 6 83.57
7 Stacey Kemp / David King   United Kingdom 113.70 7 40.38 7 73.32
8 Mari Vartmann / Florian Just   Germany 108.24 8 37.32 9 70.92
9 Rumiana Spassova / Stanimir Todorov   Bulgaria 106.79 9 35.46 8 71.33

Ice dancing

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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.

Rank Name Nation Total points CD OD FD
1 Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon   Canada 195.89 1 38.28 1 60.23 1 97.38
2 Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski   Russia 180.57 2 33.66 2 55.15 2 91.76
3 Melissa Gregory / Denis Petukhov   United States 177.81 3 33.62 3 54.56 3 89.63
4 Meryl Davis / Charlie White   United States 169.49 4 29.98 4 52.86 4 86.65
5 Nozomi Watanabe / Akiyuki Kido   Japan 150.27 5 28.99 6 46.90 6 74.38
6 Anna Zadorozhniuk / Sergei Verbillo   Ukraine 149.90 6 27.40 5 47.05 5 75.45
7 Trina Pratt / Todd Gilles   United States 143.56 8 26.33 7 44.49 7 72.74
8 Lauren Senft / Leif Gislason   Canada 141.16 7 26.96 8 44.26 8 69.94
9 Kamila Hájková / David Vincour   Czech Republic 124.40 10 22.60 9 39.90 11 61.90
10 Mylène Lamoureux / Michael Mee   Canada 123.51 9 24.86 11 34.75 9 63.90
11 Zsuzsanna Nagy / György Elek   Hungary 118.68 11 21.05 10 35.10 10 62.53
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