The 2009 NHK Trophy was the fourth event of six in the
2009–10 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the
Big Hat
is an indoor ice hockey arena in Nagano, Japan with a capacity of 10,104 seated spectators. Its official name is the ''Nagano Wakasato Tamokuteki Sports Arena''. The arena was completed and officially opened on December 10, 1995.
Location
Big ...
in
Nagano Nagano may refer to:
Places
* Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan
** Nagano (city), the capital city of the same prefecture
*** Nagano 1998, the 1998 Winter Olympics
*** Nagano Olympic Stadium, a baseball stadium in Nagano
*** Nagano Universi ...
on November 5–8. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of
men's singles, ladies' singles,
pair skating
Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...
, and
ice dancing
Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...
. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the
2009–10 Grand Prix Final. The
compulsory dance
The compulsory dance (CD), now called the pattern dance, is a part of the figure skating segment of ice dance competitions in which all the competing couples perform the same standardized steps and holds to the music of a specified tempo and ge ...
was the Tango Romantica.
Schedule
All times are
Japan Standard Time
, or , is the standard time zone in Japan, 9 hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+09:00). Japan does not observe daylight saving time, though its introduction has been debated on several occasions. During World War II, the time zone was often referred to a ...
(
UTC+9
UTC+09:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +09:00.
During the Japanese occupations of British Borneo, Burma, Hong Kong, Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Philippines, Singapore, and French Indochina, it was used as a common time with ...
).
* Friday, November 6
** 14:30 Ice dancing - Compulsory dance
** 15:45 Pairs - Short program
** 17:10 Men - Short program
** 19:05 Ladies - Short program
* Saturday, November 7
** 12:45 Ice dancing - Original dance
** 14:15 Pairs - Free skating
** 15:55 Men - Free skating
** 18.50 Ladies - Free skating
* Sunday, November 8
** 13:00 Ice dancing - Free dance
** 16:00 Gala exhibition
Results
Men
Ladies
![Ladies 2009 NHK Trophy podium](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Ladies_2009_NHK_Trophy_podium.jpg)
* WD = Withdrawn
Pairs
Ice dancing
References
External links
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2009 NHK Trophyat the Japan Skating Federation
{{2009–10 in figure skating
Nhk Trophy, 2009
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