Japanese wheelchair racer Masazumi Soejima and visually impaired Misato Michishita and Tadashi Horikoshi came in third at Sunday's London Marathon.
For the para-athletes, the London Marathon acted as a qualifier for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games, awarding places to the top two finishers in each category.
Seven Japanese took part in the wheelchair marathon, attesting to the strength of the sport in the country, while many visually impaired athletes also came within the top 10.
In the closely contested male wheelchair category, Soejima finished third in 1:31:33 seconds — two seconds behind the winner, Joshua George of the United States.
"Of course I am happy to have come third, but I was hoping to be first or second," Soejima said.