1996 NHK Trophy

1996 NHK Trophy Champions Series December 5 8 1996–97 Osaka CAN Elvis Stojko RUS Maria Butyrskaya USA Jenni Meno / Todd Sand FRA Sophie Moniotte / Pascal Lavanchy 1995 NHK Trophy 1997 NHK Trophy 1996 Nations Cup 1996 Cup of Russia The 1996 NHK Trophy was the fifth event of six in the 1996–97 ISU Champions Series, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held in Osaka on December 5–8. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 1996–97 Champions Series Final. Competition notes Midori Ito was expected to compete, but withdrew before the competition when she retired from competitive figure skating and just skated in the Exhibition.http://www.skate.org/comp/csfsc.html Championship Series of Figure Skating Results Men Rank Name Nation TFP SP FS 1 Elvis Stojko 2.0 2 1 2 Ilia Kulik 2.5 1 2 3 Dmitri Dmitrenko 6.0 4 4 4 Scott Davis 6.5 3 5 5 Éric Millot 8.0 10 3 6 Zhenxin Guo 9.0 6 6 7 Philippe Candeloro 11.5 9 7 8 Cornel Gheorghe 12.0 8 8 9 Takeshi Honda 12.5 7 9 10 Michael Shmerkin 15.5 11 10 11 David Liu 17.0 12 11 WD Todd Eldredge 5 Ladies Rank Name Nation TFP SP FS 1 Maria Butyrskaya 2.5 2 1 2 Tonia Kwiatkowski 2.5 1 2 3 Yulia Vorobieva 6.0 6 3 4 Hanae Yokoya 6.0 4 4 5 Susan Humphreys 6.5 3 5 6 Fumie Suguri 8.5 5 6 7 Shizuka Arakawa 11.5 9 7 8 Tatjana Malinina 11.5 7 8 9 Krisztina Czakó 14.0 10 9 10 Amber Corwin 14.0 8 10 Pairs Rank Name Nation TFP SP FS 1 Jenni Meno / Todd Sand 1.5 1 1 2 Evgenia Shishkova / Vadim Naumov 3.0 2 2 3 Kyoko Ina / Jason Dungjen 4.5 6 4 4 Xue Shen / Hongbo Zhao 7.0 4 5 5 Marina Khalturina / Andrei Krukov 8.5 5 6 6 Michelle Menzies / Jean-Michel Bombardier 8.5 5 6 7 Dorota Zagórska / Mariusz Siudek 10.5 7 7 8 Danielle Carr / Stephen Carr 12.0 8 8 Ice dancing Rank Name Nation TFP CD OD FD 1 Sophie Moniotte / Pascal Lavanchy 3.0 2 2 1 2 Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat 3.0 1 1 2 3 Irina Romanova / Igor Yaroshenko 6.0 3 3 3 4 Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas 8.4 5 4 4 5 Barbara Fusar-Poli / Maurizio Margaglio 9.6 4 5 5 6 Sylwia Nowak / Sebastian Kolasiński 12.0 6 6 6 7 Anna Semenovich / Vladimir Fedorov 14.0 7 7 7 8 Kate Robinson / Peter Breen 16.0 8 8 8 9 Chantal Lefebvre / Michel Brunet 18.6 9 10 9 10 Aya Kawai / Hiroshi Tanaka 19.4 10 9 10 11 Akiko Kinoshita / Yosuke Moriwaki 22.0 11 11 11 References External links 1996 NHK Trophy Nhk Trophy, 1996 Category:NHK Trophy