The phrase "a single podium" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to one podium, typically in contexts involving events, speeches, or presentations.
Example: "During the conference, there was a single podium for all the speakers to present their topics."
Alternatives: "one podium" or "a lone podium".
It was also his first full season without a single podium finish.
This season will be a make-or-break one for Schumacher, who has so far failed to score a single podium finish since his return from retirement.
Last year was the German's worst season in Formula One, the first time he had failed to score even a single podium finish.
If that is the case it will be the first time since 1980 that they have gone through a season without winning a single podium position.
He not only failed to win a race for the first time since his debut year, in 1991, but also was outraced by his teammate, Nico Rosberg, and did not score a single podium finish.
Boullier, having resigned from his role at Lotus on Friday morning, will replace Martin Whitmarsh, who in five years as McLaren team principal failed to win either the drivers' or the constructors' world championship; last season they finished in fifth place behind Lotus and failed to win a single podium place, representing the team's worst performance since 1980.
How much more electrifying to be on the podium, knowing a single flick of your baton has created this bolt of energy.
Perhaps theses TSA agents are overworked: I can imagine that long hours at a podium performing a single task for passenger after passenger after passenger can be mind-numbing.
The 18 players sat in a single line, facing the conductor's podium.
Not a single establishment politician took to the podium to introduce Sanders.
Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium he is lumpen and awkward.
