September 18, 2006 – Symmetrics Cycling’s Jake Erker took third in yesterday’s fourth stage of the Tour of Hokkaido 2006, Bibai to Sapporo 180 km. Erker and teammate Marsh Cooper were in a 3-man break all day that got caught 1 km from the finish. It did, however, move Cooper up to third in the King of the Mountain’s competition and Erker up to fourth in the General Classification, only three seconds off the podium leading up to today’s final stage, the Sapporo Criterium, a 30 km crit with several time bonuses.

Stage 4 – Bibai to Sapporo 180 km

1. Mariusz Wiesniak (POL) Team Nippo, 4:17:40
2. Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) AIS
3. Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics
4. Masamichi Yamamoto (Jpn) SKIL Shimano
5. Takehiro Mizutani (Jpn) Team Vang

13. Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics
25. Andrew Randell (Can) Symmetrics
57. Marsh Cooper (Can) Symmetrics, all s.t.
DNF Jeff Sherstobitoff (Can) Symmetrics

GC

1. Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Asian Racing, 17:15:01
2. Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Miyata-Subaru, at 0:06
3. Daniel McConnell (Aus) AIS, 0:14
4. Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics, 0:17
5. Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil Shimano, 0:19

7. Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics, 0:31
15. Andrew Randell (Can) Symmetrics, 4:55
37. Marsh Cooper (Can) Symmetrics, 11:55

Climber’s Jersey
1. Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil Shimano
2. Yoshimitsu Tsuji (Jpn) Ritsumeikan University
3. Marsh Cooper (Can) Symmetrics

6. Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics
13 Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics

Points Jersey
1. Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Miyata-Subaru, 64 points
2. Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) AIS, 61
3. Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn) Team Vang, 57

6. Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics, 38
9. Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics, 27
16. Andrew Randell (Can) Symmetrics, 17
36. Marsh Cooper (Can) Symmetrics, 1

Team GC
1. Skil Shimano, 51:547:11
2. Symmetrics, at 3:47
3. Miyata-Subaru, 5:57