Serod Batochir in Osaka Mongolian International Serod Batochir of Morpeth Harriers, finished third in the prestigious annual Osaka Marathon in Japan on Sunday 25th October 2015.
Running in a very talented line-up, he clocked a finishing time of 2hrs15mins35secs behind Kenyan winner Daniel Kosgei, who posted a winning time of 2hrs13mins46secs.
Batochir was very unfortunate not to get second place, only losing out by a mere three seconds to
Japanese favourite Ito Taiga in the final run in.
