2006 NHK Trophy

2006 NHK Trophy
Type:	Nagano
Venue:	Big Hat
Champions
Men's singles: Daisuke Takahashi
Ladies' singles: Mao Asada
Pairs: Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo
Ice dance: Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon
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The 2006 NHK Trophy was the final event of six in the

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Results

Men

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

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

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

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

External links

• 2006 Competition
• 2006 NHK Trophy - Official Site