The phrase "obtained second place" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing the outcome of a competition or contest where someone finished in the second position.
Example: "After a fierce competition, she obtained second place in the annual spelling bee."
Alternatives: "secured second place" or "achieved second place."
Examples of the valid and reliable performance in comparison to established benchmark methods are shown for a set of synthetic time series and for the ESTSP'08 competition dataset, where the proposed methodology obtained second place.
In the other six provinces won by the ANC, the DA obtained second place.
Ikhlas Abdel Rahim Nimer, from Al Sahafa newspaper, obtained second place for her piece entitled "Street children: losing family support, losing identity".
In 1882 he was granted a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge; and two years later he obtained third place in the Mathematical Tripos (final examinations), a splendid achievement that led to his appointment, in 1885, as professor of mathematics and physics at the young University of Adelaide, S.Aus.
"Today in the Boston marathon Madai achieved seventh place in 2 hours 28 minutes and 59 seconds, in the women's category; only two minutes behind Kenyan Rita Jeptoo who obtained first place".
In the final ranking of goods, measure and due proportion, unsurprisingly, get the first rank, things in proper proportion come in second, reason is ranked third, the different sorts of arts and sciences obtain fourth place, and the true and pure pleasures get fifth and last place on the scale of goods (64c 67b).
In the second competition, Jamfest Nationals (Jam-Bash Series Orlando), held on 6 April 2013, they obtained the first place in the Senior (Co-Ed) Cheer, Best Choreography category.
Then in extra time Alonso scored an free-kick in to the bottom corner which helped Spain obtain the third place in the tournament.
The system recently obtained a very close second place in the PlantCLEF 2016.
"By and large, the people we see have loans that they never should have obtained in the first place," said Ismene Speliotis, executive director of New York Acorn Housing.
Whether the authorities who took down the statements were troubled by any of the striking discrepancies between the two accounts — however they may have been obtained in the first place — is not known.
