2016 NHK Trophy
The 2016 NHK Trophy was the final event of six in the 2016–17 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Makomanai Sekisuiheim Ice Arena in Sapporo on November 25–27. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2016–17 Grand Prix Final.
Entries
The ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 30, 2016.| Country | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer | ||||
| Elladj Baldé Nam Nguyen | Alaine Chartrand | Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | |
| Peng Cheng / Jin Yang Wang Xuehan / Wang Lei | ||||
| Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron | ||||
| Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert | ||||
| Oleksii Bychenko | ||||
| Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte | ||||
| Yuzuru Hanyu Ryuju Hino Keiji Tanaka | Wakaba Higuchi Yura Matsuda Satoko Miyahara | Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau-Audet | Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed | |
| Elizabet Tursynbayeva | ||||
| Deniss Vasiļjevs | ||||
| Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev | ||||
| Choi Da-bin | ||||
| Mikhail Kolyada | Anna Pogorilaya Maria Sotskova | Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov | ||
| Nicole Rajičová | ||||
| Jason Brown Nathan Chen Grant Hochstein | Karen Chen Mirai Nagasu | Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea | Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker |