NHK Trophy

NHK Trophy
Status	Active
Genre	ISU Grand Prix
Frequency	Annual
Country	Japan
Inaugurated	1979
Previous event	2025 NHK Trophy
Next event	2026 NHK Trophy
Organized by	Japan Skating Federation

The NHK Trophy is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the Japan Skating Federation. The first NHK Trophy was held in 1979 in Tokyo to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the National Skating Union of Japan. When the ISU launched the Champions Series (later renamed the Grand Prix Series) in 1995, the NHK Trophy was one of the five qualifying events. It has been a Grand Prix event every year since.

Medals may be awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earn points based on their results at the qualifying competitions each season, and the top skaters or teams in each discipline are invited to then compete at the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final.

Daisuke Takahashi of Japan holds the record for winning the most NHK Trophy titles in men's singles (with six), while Midori Ito of Japan holds the record in women's singles (also with six). Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo of China hold the record in pair skating (with four), while Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat of France hold the record in ice dance (with five).

History

The inaugural competition – the 1979 NHK Trophy – was held in Tokyo to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the National Skating Union of Japan.^[1]Robin Cousins of Great Britain won the men's event, Emi Watanabe of Japan won the women's event, Irina Vorobieva and Igor Lisovsky of the Soviet Union won the pairs event, and Irina Moiseeva and Andrei Minenkov, also of the Soviet Union, won the ice dance event.^[2]

Beginning with the 1995–96 season, the International Skating Union (ISU) launched the Champions Series – later renamed the Grand Prix Series – which, at its inception, consisted of five qualifying competitions and the Champions Series Final. This allowed skaters to perfect their programs earlier in the season, as well as compete against the same skaters whom they would later encounter at the World Championships. This series also provided the viewing public with additional televised skating, which was in high demand.^[3] The five qualifying competitions during this inaugural season were the 1995 Nations Cup, the 1995 NHK Trophy, the 1995 Skate America, the 1995 Skate Canada, and the 1995 Trophée de France.^[4] Skaters earned points based on their results in their respective competitions and the top skaters or teams in each discipline were then invited to compete at the Champions Series Final.^[3]

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a number of modifications were made to the structure of the 2020 NHK Trophy. The competitors consisted initially only of skaters from Japan,^[5] although You Young of South Korea was added to the roster once her travel to Japan was approved.^[6] The pairs event was also cancelled.^[7]

The gold, silver, and bronze medalists in the men's event at the 2012 NHK Trophy: Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan (center), Daisuke Takahashi of Japan (left), and Ross Miner of the United States (right)

The gold, silver, and bronze medalists in the women's event at the 2017 NHK Trophy: Evgenia Medvedeva of Russia (center), Carolina Kostner of Italy (left), and Polina Tsurskaya of Russia (right)

The gold, silver, and bronze medalists in the pairs event at the 2011 NHK Trophy: Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov of Russia (center), Narumi Takahashi and Mervin Tran of Japan (left), and Aljona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany (right)

The gold, silver, and bronze medalists in the ice dance event at the 2016 NHK Trophy: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada (center), Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France (left), and Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte of Italy (right)

Medalists

The reigning NHK Trophy champions: Yuma Kagiyama of Japan (men's singles); Kaori Sakamoto of Japan (women's singles); Sara Conti and Niccolò Macii of Italy (pair skating); and Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson of Great Britain (ice dance)

Men's singles

Men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1979	Tokyo	Robin Cousins	Fumio Igarashi	David Santee	[2]
1980	Sapporo	Fumio Igarashi	Robert Wagenhoffer	Allen Schramm	[8]
1981	Kobe		Norbert Schramm	Jean-Christophe Simond
1982	Tokyo	Scott Hamilton	Alexander Fadeev	Grzegorz Filipowski	[9]
1983	No competition held
1984	Tokyo	Alexander Fadeev	Brian Orser	Brian Boitano	[10]
1985	Kobe	Brian Boitano		Viktor Petrenko	[11]
1986	Tokyo	Angelo D'Agostino	Makoto Kano	Philippe Roncoli	[12]
1987	Kushiro	Christopher Bowman	Paul Wylie	Makoto Kano	[13]
1988	Tokyo	Alexander Fadeev	Petr Barna	Kurt Browning	[14]
1989	Kobe	Viktor Petrenko	Alexander Fadeev		[15]
1990	Asahikawa		Grzegorz Filipowski	Viacheslav Zagorodniuk	[16]
1991	Hiroshima	Grzegorz Filipowski	Viacheslav Zagorodniuk	Alexei Urmanov	[17]
1992	Tokyo	Philippe Candeloro	Elvis Stojko	Alexei Urmanov	[18]
1993	Chiba		Vyacheslav Zahorodnyuk		[19]
1994	Morioka	Todd Eldredge	Philippe Candeloro	Vyacheslav Zahorodnyuk	[20]
1995	Nagoya	Elvis Stojko	Igor Pashkevich	Philippe Candeloro	[21]
1996	Osaka		Ilia Kulik	Dmytro Dmytrenko	[22]
1997	Nagano	Ilia Kulik	Scott Davis	Guo Zhengxin	[23]
1998	Sapporo	Evgeni Plushenko	Takeshi Honda	Andrejs Vlascenko	[24]
1999	Nagoya		Timothy Goebel	Ilia Klimkin	[25]
2000	Asahikawa		Ilia Klimkin	Li Chengjiang	[26]
2001	Kumamoto	Takeshi Honda	Jeffrey Buttle	Ivan Dinev	[27]
2002	Kyoto	Ilia Klimkin	Takeshi Honda	Li Chengjiang	[28]
2003	Asahikawa	Jeffrey Buttle	Timothy Goebel	Gao Song	[29]
2004	Nagoya	Johnny Weir		Frédéric Dambier	[30]
2005	Osaka	Nobunari Oda	Evan Lysacek	Daisuke Takahashi	[31]
2006	Nagano	Daisuke Takahashi	Nobunari Oda	Takahiko Kozuka	[32]
2007	Sendai		Tomáš Verner	Stephen Carriere	[33]
2008	Tokyo	Nobunari Oda	Johnny Weir	Yannick Ponsero	[34]
2009	Nagano	Brian Joubert		Michal Březina	[35]
2010	Nagoya	Daisuke Takahashi	Jeremy Abbott	Florent Amodio	[36]
2011	Sapporo		Takahiko Kozuka	Ross Miner	[37]
2012	Rifu	Yuzuru Hanyu	Daisuke Takahashi		[38]
2013	Tokyo	Daisuke Takahashi	Nobunari Oda	Jeremy Abbott	[39]
2014	Osaka	Daisuke Murakami	Sergei Voronov	Takahito Mura	[40]
2015	Nagano	Yuzuru Hanyu	Jin Boyang		[41]
2016	Sapporo		Nathan Chen	Keiji Tanaka	[42]
2017	Osaka	Sergei Voronov	Adam Rippon	Alexei Bychenko	[43]
2018	Hiroshima	Shoma Uno	Sergei Voronov	Matteo Rizzo	[44]
2019	Sapporo	Yuzuru Hanyu	Kévin Aymoz	Roman Sadovsky	[45]
2020	Osaka	Yuma Kagiyama	Kazuki Tomono	Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda	[7]
2021	Tokyo	Shoma Uno	Vincent Zhou	Cha Jun-hwan	[46]
2022	Sapporo		Sōta Yamamoto		[47]
2023	Osaka	Yuma Kagiyama	Shoma Uno	Lukas Britschgi	[48]
2024	Tokyo		Daniel Grassl	Tatsuya Tsuboi	[49]
2025	Osaka		Shun Sato	Lukas Britschgi	[50]

Women's singles

Women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1979	Tokyo	Emi Watanabe	Lisa-Marie Allen	Sandy Lenz	[2]
1980	Sapporo	Denise Biellmann	Katarina Witt	Melissa Thomas	[8]
1981	Kobe	Kristiina Wegelius	Vikki de Vries	Charlene Wong
1982	Tokyo	Katarina Witt	Rosalynn Sumners	Tiffany Chin	[9]
1983	No competition held
1984	Tokyo	Midori Ito	Debi Thomas	Juri Ozawa	[10]
1985	Kobe		Cynthia Coull		[11]
1986	Tokyo	Katarina Witt	Midori Ito		[12]
1987	Kushiro			Tonya Harding	[13]
1988	Tokyo	Midori Ito	Kristi Yamaguchi	Marina Kielmann	[14]
1989	Kobe			Tonia Kwiatkowski	[15]
1990	Asahikawa		Tonya Harding	Larissa Zamotina	[16]
1991	Hiroshima		Surya Bonaly	Chen Lu	[17]
1992	Tokyo	Surya Bonaly	Kumiko Koiwai	Yuka Sato	[18]
1993	Chiba		Yuka Sato	Chen Lu	[19]
1994	Morioka	Chen Lu	Surya Bonaly	Junko Yaginuma	[20]
1995	Nagoya		Hanae Yokoya	Olga Markova	[21]
1996	Osaka	Maria Butyrskaya	Tonia Kwiatkowski	Julia Vorobieva	[22]
1997	Nagano	Tanja Szewczenko	Maria Butyrskaya	Chen Lu	[23]
1998	Sapporo	Tatiana Malinina	Irina Slutskaya	Fumie Suguri	[24]
1999	Nagoya	Maria Butyrskaya	Viktoria Volchkova	Tatiana Malinina	[25]
2000	Asahikawa	Irina Slutskaya	Maria Butyrskaya		[26]
2001	Kumamoto	Tatiana Malinina	Yoshie Onda	Elena Liashenko	[27]
2002	Kyoto	Yoshie Onda	Irina Slutskaya	Shizuka Arakawa	[28]
2003	Asahikawa	Fumie Suguri	Elena Liashenko	Yoshie Onda	[29]
2004	Nagoya	Shizuka Arakawa	Miki Ando	Elena Sokolova	[30]
2005	Osaka	Yukari Nakano	Fumie Suguri	Elena Liashenko	[31]
2006	Nagano	Mao Asada		Yukari Nakano	[32]
2007	Sendai	Carolina Kostner	Sarah Meier	Nana Takeda	[33]
2008	Tokyo	Mao Asada	Akiko Suzuki	Yukari Nakano	[34]
2009	Nagano	Miki Ando	Alena Leonova	Ashley Wagner	[35]
2010	Nagoya	Carolina Kostner	Rachael Flatt	Kanako Murakami	[36]
2011	Sapporo	Akiko Suzuki	Mao Asada	Alena Leonova	[37]
2012	Rifu	Mao Asada	Akiko Suzuki	Mirai Nagasu	[38]
2013	Tokyo		Elena Radionova	Akiko Suzuki	[39]
2014	Osaka	Gracie Gold	Alena Leonova	Satoko Miyahara	[40]
2015	Nagano	Satoko Miyahara	Courtney Hicks	Mao Asada	[41]
2016	Sapporo	Anna Pogorilaya	Satoko Miyahara	Maria Sotskova	[42]
2017	Osaka	Evgenia Medvedeva	Carolina Kostner	Polina Tsurskaya	[43]
2018	Hiroshima	Rika Kihira	Satoko Miyahara	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	[44]
2019	Sapporo	Alena Kostornaia	Rika Kihira	Alina Zagitova	[45]
2020	Osaka	Kaori Sakamoto	Wakaba Higuchi	Rino Matsuike	[7]
2021	Tokyo		Mana Kawabe	You Young	[46]
2022	Sapporo	Kim Ye-lim	Kaori Sakamoto	Rion Sumiyoshi	[47]
2023	Osaka	Ava Marie Ziegler	Lindsay Thorngren	Nina Pinzarrone	[48]
2024	Tokyo	Kaori Sakamoto	Mone Chiba	Yuna Aoki	[49]
2025	Osaka		Sofia Samodelkina	Loena Hendrickx	[50]

Pairs

Pairs event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1979	Tokyo	Irina Vorobieva Igor Lisovsky	Vicki Heasley Robert Wagenhoffer	Sheryl Franks Michael Botticelli	[2]
1980	Sapporo	Barbara Underhill Paul Martini	Maria Di Domenico Burt Lancon	Toshimi Ito Takashi Mura	[8]
1981	Kobe	Caitlin Carruthers Peter Carruthers	Birgit Lorenz Knut Schubert	Maria Di Domenico Burt Lancon
1982	Tokyo	Barbara Underhill Paul Martini	Irina Vorobieva Igor Lisovsky	Marina Avstriyskaya Yuri Kvashnin	[9]
1983	No competition held
1984	Tokyo	Veronica Pershina Marat Akbarov	Birgit Lorenz Knut Schubert	Cynthia Coull Mark Rowsom	[10]
1985	Kobe	Gillian Wachsman Todd Waggoner	Veronica Pershina Marat Akbarov	Denise Benning Lyndon Johnston	[11]
1986	Tokyo	Elena Valova Oleg Vasiliev	Jill Watson Peter Oppegard	Natalie Seybold Wayne Seybold	[12]
1987	Kushiro	Elena Leonova Gennadi Krasnitski	Gillian Wachsman Todd Waggoner	Katy Keeley Joseph Mero	[13]
1988	Tokyo	Larisa Selezneva Oleg Makarov	Elena Bechke Denis Petrov	Kristi Yamaguchi Rudy Galindo	[14]
1989	Kobe	Ekaterina Gordeeva Sergei Grinkov	Larisa Selezneva Oleg Makarov	Christine Hough Doug Ladret	[15]
1990	Asahikawa	Elena Bechke Denis Petrov	Isabelle Brasseur Lloyd Eisler	Natalia Mishkutionok Artur Dmitriev	[16]
1991	Hiroshima	Evgenia Shishkova Vadim Naumov	Radka Kovaříková René Novotný	Marina Eltsova Andrei Bushkov	[17]
1992	Tokyo	Evgenia Shishkova Vadim Naumov	Marina Eltsova Andrei Bushkov	Calla Urbanski Rocky Marval	[18]
1993	Chiba	Isabelle Brasseur Lloyd Eisler	Radka Kovaříková René Novotný	Yukiko Kawasaki Alexei Tikhonov	[19]
1994	Morioka	Marina Eltsova Andrei Bushkov		Mandy Wötzel Ingo Steuer	[20]
1995	Nagoya	Evgenia Shishkova Vadim Naumov	Mandy Wötzel Ingo Steuer	Natalia Krestianinova Alexei Torchinski	[21]
1996	Osaka	Jenni Meno Todd Sand	Evgenia Shishkova Vadim Naumov	Kyoko Ina Jason Dungjen	[22]
1997	Nagano	Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo	Jenni Meno Todd Sand	Peggy Schwarz Mirko Müller	[23]
1998	Sapporo	Elena Berezhnaya Anton Sikharulidze	Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo	Jamie Salé David Pelletier	[24]
1999	Nagoya	Maria Petrova Alexei Tikhonov	Sarah Abitbol Stéphane Bernadis	Dorota Zagorska Mariusz Siudek	[25]
2000	Asahikawa	Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo		Maria Petrova Alexei Tikhonov	[26]
2001	Kumamoto		Maria Petrova Alexei Tikhonov	Dorota Zagorska Mariusz Siudek	[27]
2002	Kyoto		Dorota Zagorska Mariusz Siudek	Anabelle Langlois Patrice Archetto	[28]
2003	Asahikawa	Maria Petrova Alexei Tikhonov	Anabelle Langlois Patrice Archetto	Dorota Zagorska Mariusz Siudek	[29]
2004	Nagoya		Pang Qing Tong Jian		[30]
2005	Osaka	Zhang Dan Zhang Hao	Aljona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy	Utako Wakamatsu Jean-Sébastien Fecteau	[31]
2006	Nagano	Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo	Zhang Dan Zhang Hao	Valérie Marcoux Craig Buntin	[32]
2007	Sendai	Aljona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy	Keauna McLaughlin Rockne Brubaker	Jessica Dubé Bryce Davison	[33]
2008	Tokyo	Pang Qing Tong Jian	Rena Inoue John Baldwin		[34]
2009	Nagano		Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Smirnov	Rena Inoue John Baldwin	[35]
2010	Nagoya		Vera Bazarova Yuri Larionov	Narumi Takahashi Mervin Tran	[36]
2011	Sapporo	Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Smirnov	Narumi Takahashi Mervin Tran	Aljona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy	[37]
2012	Rifu	Vera Bazarova Yuri Larionov	Kirsten Moore-Towers Dylan Moscovitch	Marissa Castelli Simon Shnapir	[38]
2013	Tokyo	Tatiana Volosozhar Maxim Trankov	Peng Cheng Hao Zhang	Wenjing Sui Cong Han	[39]
2014	Osaka	Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford	Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Smirnov	Yu Xiaoyu Jin Yang	[40]
2015	Nagano		Yu Xiaoyu Jin Yang	Alexa Scimeca Chris Knierim	[41]
2016	Sapporo		Peng Cheng Jin Yang	Wang Xuehan Wang Lei	[42]
2017	Osaka	Sui Wenjing Han Cong	Ksenia Stolbova Fedor Klimov	Kristina Astakhova Alexei Rogonov	[43]
2018	Hiroshima	Natalia Zabiiako Alexander Enbert	Peng Cheng Jin Yang	Alexa Scimeca Knierim Chris Knierim	[44]
2019	Sapporo	Sui Wenjing Han Cong	Kirsten Moore-Towers Michael Marinaro	Anastasia Mishina Aleksandr Galliamov	[45]
2020	Osaka	No pairs competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[7]
2021	Tokyo	Anastasia Mishina Aleksandr Galliamov	Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov	Riku Miura Ryuichi Kihara	[46]
2022	Sapporo	Riku Miura Ryuichi Kihara	Emily Chan Spencer Akira Howe	Brooke McIntosh Benjamin Mimar	[47]
2023	Osaka	Minerva Fabienne Hase Nikita Volodin	Lucrezia Beccari Matteo Guarise	Rebecca Ghilardi Filippo Ambrosini	[48]
2024	Tokyo	Anastasiia Metelkina Luka Berulava	Riku Miura Ryuichi Kihara	Ellie Kam Daniel O'Shea	[49]
2025	Osaka	Sara Conti Niccolò Macii	Maria Pavlova Alexei Sviatchenko	Sui Wenjing Han Cong	[50]

Ice dance

Ice dance event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1979	Tokyo	Irina Moiseeva Andrei Minenkov	Jayne Torvill Christopher Dean	Natalia Karamysheva Rostislav Sinicyn	[2]
1980	Sapporo	Carol Fox Richard Dalley	Karen Barber Nicholas Slater	Lillian Heming Murray Carey	[8]
1981	Kobe	Karen Barber Nicholas Slater	Natalia Karamysheva Rostislav Sinicyn	Jana Beránková Jan Barták
1982	Tokyo	Elena Batanova Alexei Soloviev	Carol Fox Richard Dalley	Wendy Sessions Stephen Williams	[9]
1983	No competition held
1984	Tokyo	Karen Barber Nicholas Slater	Elena Batanova Alexei Soloviev	John Thomas Kelly Johnson	[10]
1985	Kobe	Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko	Karyn Garossino Rod Garossino	Sharon Jones Paul Askham	[11]
1986	Tokyo	Natalia Bestemianova Andrei Bukin	Suzanne Semanick Scott Gregory	Kathrin Beck Christoff Beck	[12]
1987	Kushiro		Svetlana Liapina Gorsha Sur	Susan Wynne Joseph Druar	[13]
1988	Tokyo	Marina Klimova Sergei Ponomarenko	Maya Usova Alexander Zhulin	April Sargent Russ Witherby	[14]
1989	Kobe		Oksana Grishuk Evgeni Platov	Jo-Anne Borlase Martin Smith	[15]
1990	Asahikawa	Maya Usova Alexander Zhulin	Klára Engi Attila Tóth	Stefania Calegari Pasquale Camerlengo	[16]
1991	Hiroshima		Oksana Grishuk Evgeni Platov		[17]
1992	Tokyo	Maya Usova Alexander Zhulin	Anjelika Krylova Vladimir Fedorov	Sophie Moniotte Pascal Lavanchy	[18]
1993	Chiba	Oksana Grishuk Evgeni Platov	Irina Romanova Igor Yaroshenko	Aliki Stergiadu Juris Razgulajevs	[19]
1994	Morioka	Sophie Moniotte Pascal Lavanchy	Tatiana Navka Samvel Gezalian	Marina Anissina Gwendal Peizerat	[20]
1995	Nagoya	Marina Anissina Gwendal Peizerat	Shae-Lynn Bourne Viktor Kraatz	Anna Semenovich Vladimir Fedorov	[21]
1996	Osaka	Sophie Moniotte Pascal Lavanchy	Marina Anissina Gwendal Peizerat	Irina Romanova Igor Yaroshenko	[22]
1997	Nagano	Pasha Grishuk Evgeni Platov	Shae-Lynn Bourne Viktor Kraatz	Barbara Fusar-Poli Maurizio Margaglio	[23]
1998	Sapporo	Marina Anissina Gwendal Peizerat	Irina Lobacheva Ilia Averbukh	Margarita Drobiazko Povilas Vanagas	[24]
1999	Nagoya				[25]
2000	Asahikawa		Margarita Drobiazko Povilas Vanagas	Kati Winkler René Lohse	[26]
2001	Kumamoto			Albena Denkova Maxim Staviski	[27]
2002	Kyoto	Irina Lobacheva Ilia Averbukh	Kati Winkler René Lohse	Galit Chait Sergei Sakhnovski	[28]
2003	Asahikawa	Albena Denkova Maxim Staviski	Elena Grushina Ruslan Goncharov		[29]
2004	Nagoya		Tatiana Navka Roman Kostomarov	Isabelle Delobel Olivier Schoenfelder	[30]
2005	Osaka	Marie-France Dubreuil Patrice Lauzon	Albena Denkova Maxim Staviski	Anastasia Grebenkina Vazgen Azrojan	[31]
2006	Nagano		Jana Khokhlova Sergei Novitski	Melissa Gregory Denis Petukhov	[32]
2007	Sendai	Isabelle Delobel Olivier Schoenfelder	Tessa Virtue Scott Moir	Jana Khokhlova Sergei Novitski	[33]
2008	Tokyo	Federica Faiella Massimo Scali	Nathalie Péchalat Fabian Bourzat	Emily Samuelson Evan Bates	[34]
2009	Nagano	Meryl Davis Charlie White	Sinead Kerr John Kerr	Vanessa Crone Paul Poirier	[35]
2010	Nagoya		Kaitlyn Weaver Andrew Poje	Maia Shibutani Alex Shibutani	[36]
2011	Sapporo	Maia Shibutani Alex Shibutani		Elena Ilinykh Nikita Katsalapov	[37]
2012	Rifu	Meryl Davis Charlie White	Elena Ilinykh Nikita Katsalapov	Maia Shibutani Alex Shibutani	[38]
2013	Tokyo		Anna Cappellini Luca Lanotte		[39]
2014	Osaka	Kaitlyn Weaver Andrew Poje	Ksenia Monko Kirill Khaliavin	Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker	[40]
2015	Nagano	Maia Shibutani Alex Shibutani	Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev	Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue	[41]
2016	Sapporo	Tessa Virtue Scott Moir	Gabriella Papadakis Guillaume Cizeron	Anna Cappellini Luca Lanotte	[42]
2017	Osaka		Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue		[43]
2018	Hiroshima	Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker	Tiffany Zahorski Jonathan Guerreiro	Rachel Parsons Michael Parsons	[44]
2019	Sapporo	Gabriella Papadakis Guillaume Cizeron	Alexandra Stepanova Ivan Bukin	Charlène Guignard Marco Fabbri	[45]
2020	Osaka	Misato Komatsubara Tim Koleto	Rikako Fukase Eichu Cho	Kana Muramoto Daisuke Takahashi	[7]
2021	Tokyo	Victoria Sinitsina Nikita Katsalapov	Madison Chock Evan Bates	Lilah Fear Lewis Gibson	[46]
2022	Sapporo	Laurence Fournier Beaudry Nikolaj Sørensen		Caroline Green Michael Parsons	[47]
2023	Osaka	Lilah Fear Lewis Gibson	Charlène Guignard Marco Fabbri	Allison Reed Saulius Ambrulevičius	[48]
2024	Tokyo	Madison Chock Evan Bates	Christina Carreira Anthony Ponomarenko		[49]
2025	Osaka	Lilah Fear Lewis Gibson	Charlène Guignard Marco Fabbri	Caroline Green Michael Parsons	[50]

Records

From left to right:Daisuke Takahashi of Japan won six NHK Trophy titles in men's singles; Midori Ito of Japan won six NHK Trophy titles in women's singles; Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo of China won four NHK Trophy titles in pair skating; and Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat of France won five NHK Trophy titles in ice dance.

Records

Discipline	Most titles
	Skater(s)	No.	Years	Ref.
Men's singles	Daisuke Takahashi	6	2006–07;2010–11;2013–14	[51]
Women's singles	Midori Ito	6	1984–85;1988–91	[10][11][14][15][16][17]
Pairs	Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo	4	2000–02;2006	[52]
Ice dance	Marina Anissina Gwendal Peizerat	5	1995;1998–2001	[53]

Cumulative medal count

Men's singles

Total number of NHK Trophy medals in men's singles by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	22	12	8	42
2	United States	6	13	7	26
3	Russia	6	5	3	14
4	Soviet Union	4	3	3	10
5	Canada	3	4	3	10
6	France	3	2	6	11
7	Poland	1	1	1	3
8	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
9	China	0	1	4	5
10	Ukraine	0	1	2	3
11	Czech Republic	0	1	1	2
	Italy	0	1	1	2
13	Czechoslovakia	0	1	0	1
	West Germany	0	1	0	1
15	South Korea	0	0	2	2
	Switzerland	0	0	2	2
17	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Israel	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		46	46	46	138

Women's singles

Total number of NHK Trophy medals in women's singles by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	23	19	18	60
2	Russia	6	8	7	21
3	East Germany	3	1	0	4
4	United States	2	11	7	20
5	France	2	2	0	4
6	Italy	2	1	0	3
7	China	2	0	3	5
8	Uzbekistan	2	0	2	4
9	Switzerland	1	1	0	2
10	South Korea	1	0	1	2
11	Finland	1	0	0	1
	Germany	1	0	0	1
13	Ukraine	0	1	2	3
14	Canada	0	1	1	2
15	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
16	Belgium	0	0	2	2
17	Azerbaijan	0	0	1	1
	Soviet Union	0	0	1	1
	West Germany	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		46	46	46	138

Pairs

Total number of NHK Trophy medals in pairs by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	12	8	4	24
2	China	11	7	4	22
3	Soviet Union	8	4	3	15
4	Canada	6	4	10	20
5	United States	3	8	12	23
6	Germany	2	2	3	7
7	Japan	1	2	4	7
8	Italy	1	1	1	3
9	Georgia	1	0	0	1
10	Czech Republic	0	3	0	3
11	East Germany	0	2	0	2
	France	0	2	0	2
13	Poland	0	1	4	5
14	Hungary	0	1	0	1
Totals (14 entries)		45	45	45	135

Ice dance

Total number of NHK Trophy medals in ice dance by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	9	6	12	27
2	Soviet Union	9	6	1	16
3	France	9	3	3	15
4	Canada	6	6	3	15
5	Russia	5	10	3	18
6	Great Britain	4	3	4	11
7	Bulgaria	2	1	1	4
8	Italy	1	3	6	10
9	Japan	1	1	1	3
10	Lithuania	0	2	4	6
11	Ukraine	0	2	1	3
12	Germany	0	1	1	2
13	Belarus	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
15	Israel	0	0	2	2
16	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		46	46	46	138

Total medals

Total number of NHK Trophy medals by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	47	34	31	112
2	Russia	29	31	17	77
3	Soviet Union	21	13	8	42
4	United States	20	38	38	96
5	Canada	15	15	17	47
6	France	14	9	9	32
7	China	13	8	11	32
8	Great Britain	5	3	4	12
9	Italy	4	6	8	18
10	Germany	3	3	5	11
11	East Germany	3	3	0	6
12	Bulgaria	2	1	2	5
13	Uzbekistan	2	0	3	5
14	Poland	1	2	5	8
15	Switzerland	1	1	2	4
16	South Korea	1	0	3	4
17	Finland	1	0	0	1
	Georgia	1	0	0	1
19	Ukraine	0	4	5	9
20	Czech Republic	0	4	1	5
21	Lithuania	0	2	4	6
22	Hungary	0	2	0	2
23	Czechoslovakia	0	1	1	2
	West Germany	0	1	1	2
25	Belarus	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
27	Israel	0	0	3	3
28	Belgium	0	0	2	2
29	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Azerbaijan	0	0	1	1
Totals (31 entries)		183	183	183	549

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External links

• Japan Skating Federation
• ISU Grand Prix
• NHK Trophy at Skating Scores