The phrase "achieved the second" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone has reached a second position or milestone, such as in competitions or rankings.
Example: "After a fierce competition, she achieved the second place in the national championship."
Alternatives: "secured the second" or "attained the second".
Australia outscored their hosts by 12 runs but India achieved the second and third highest chases in history.
Service's magisterial book shows how Gorbachev achieved the second objective – but only at the cost of destroying his own socialist system and "losing" the Cold War.
In 86.7% of the gilts, the tip of the flexible catheter achieved the second or third quarter of the uterine horn.
Having achieved the second success on Monday, the companies said they would file for approval of the drug in the United States and Europe in the first half of 2010.
We achieved the second objective through the analysis of patterns of community assembly-disassembly (as measured by nestedness) as well as the changes in taxonomic diversity and the ecological structure defined by faunal components.
An updated mechanism of the dynamic tag keys is introduced and a self-synchronized scheme is designed in the protocol, which has achieved the second verification for the tags.
Disney reports that the film has achieved the second-biggest April opening of all time, behind only its own The Avengers.
With a three-day opening of £9.75m, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies achieved the second-biggest weekend of 2014, behind The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (£10.32m plus £2.33m in previews).
Grossing £602,000 from 126 screens (including previews of just under £100,000), Hindi hit Bang Bang achieved the second-highest screen average of any film on release at the weekend, behind Gone Girl.
None has yet achieved the fourth, top, rating of "outstanding".
