"achieved the place" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means that someone or something has reached or obtained a certain position or ranking. Example: After years of hard work and dedication, Sarah finally achieved the place of captain on her soccer team.
Yet although there are numerous wineries around the country, in the modern era Greek wine has never achieved the place it deserves on the international market.
No one seriously expects them to compete for the title – "there is not a position where one of the three or four best in the world in that position is not playing for Madrid or Barcelona," Emery says, and he is right – and they have consistently achieved the place that they can seriously be expected to compete for.
Once this has been achieved, the place of clinically active anti-angiogenic agents will need to be further refined in order to determine where they best fit in our current armamentarium, either as single agents or in combination with classical anticancer therapies.
To achieve the place in history he seems to want, he will need either vast new revenues (actual or anticipated) or huge reduction, in expenditures.
The last time MIT achieved the fourth place ranking in U.S. News was 2004.
The CONCACAF proclaimed champion of the region for the country that achieved the first place in qualifying to the FIFA World Cup.
Using ADA tool, we also achieved the second place in the "The Sage Bionetworks/DREAM breast cancer prognosis challenge 2012" (https://sagebionetworks.jira.com/wiki/display/BCC/Home) by simply identifying 8 genes from the provided training set.
A maximum of five individuals moved on from each divisional final, provided that they achieved the necessary placing.
This summer he achieved the ultimate: a place of his own.
Kruse achieved the best Olympic placing for a British fencer in 40 years when he reached the quarter-finals in the foil at the 2004 Games.
