2025 NHK Trophy
| 2025 NHK Trophy | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Grand Prix |
| Date: | 7 – 9 November |
| Season: | 2024–25 |
| Location: | Kadoma, Osaka, Japan |
| Host: | Japan Skating Federation |
| Venue: | Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome |
| Defending champions | |
| Men's singles: Yuma Kagiyama | |
| Women's singles: Kaori Sakamoto | |
| Pairs: Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava | |
| Ice dance: Madison Chock and Evan Bates | |
| Previous: 2024 NHK Trophy | |
| Next: 2026 NHK Trophy | |
| Previous Grand Prix: 2025 Skate Canada International | |
| Next Grand Prix: 2025 Skate America | |
The 2025 NHK Trophy is a figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU). Organized and hosted by the Japan Skating Federation, it is the fourth event of the 2025–26 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: a senior-level international invitational competition series. It will be held at the Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan from November 7–9.[1][2] Medals will be awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters will also earned points toward qualifying for the 2025–26 Grand Prix Final.
Entries
The International Skating Union announced the preliminary assignments on 6 June 2025.[3][4]
| Country | Men | Women | Pairs | Ice dance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | — | Loena Hendrickx | — | ||
| Nina Pinzarrone | |||||
| Canada | — | Katherine Medland Spence | — | ||
| China | Jin Boyang | — | — | ||
| Czech Republic | — | ||||
| Finland | — | ||||
| France | François Pitot | — | — | ||
| Great Britain | — | ||||
| Hungary | — | — | |||
| Italy | Gabriele Frangipani | Anna Pezzetta | |||
| Matteo Rizzo | — | ||||
| Japan | Yuma Kagiyama | Wakaba Higuchi | TBA | ||
| Shun Sato | Kaori Sakamoto | — | — | ||
| TBA | |||||
| Kazakhstan | — | Sofia Samodelkina | — | ||
| Netherlands | — | — | |||
| Slovakia | Adam Hagara | — | |||
| South Korea | Cha Jun-hwan | You Young | — | ||
| Switzerland | Lukas Britschgi | Kimmy Repond | — | ||
| United States | Jimmy Ma | Sarah Everhardt | |||
| Andrew Torgashev | Elyce Lin-Gracey | ||||
| — | |||||
Changes to preliminary assignments
| Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Notes | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Skater(s) | Date | Skater(s) | |||
| July 11 |
|
Tanaka retired. | [5][6] | |||
References
- ^ "2025 NHK Trophy". Japan Skating Federation. Japan Skating Federation. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
- ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2025". International Skating Union. International Skating Union. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
- ^ "Grand Prix Assignments 2025/26". X. Anything GOEs. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
- ^ "ISU announces 2025-2026 Grand Prix assignments". Figure Skaters Online. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
- ^ "🇯🇵 Azusa Tanaka / Shingo Nishiyama have ended their partnership" (Tweet). July 11, 2025 – via Twitter. {{Cite tweet}}: Missing or empty |user= (help)
- ^ @AnythingGOE (July 11, 2025). "🇯🇵 Azusa Tanaka has announced her retirement" (Tweet) – via Twitter.