The word 'podium' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a platform on which people stand to give speeches or presentations, or to refer to a raised platform on which a winner stands to receive an award. Here is an example sentence: When they announced the winner of the competition, the first-place finisher stepped up to the podium to receive their prize.
Sajid Javid, the culture secretary, was heckled at the pre-election Citizens UK assembly on Monday, where he took the prime minister's place at the podium in front of thousands of community activists.
Martyn Rooney, who will compete in the men's 4x400m, believes that all four British teams are capable of making the podium at the event, which begins on 24 May.
Labour lost me during the Blair years and they lost me all over again when they brought him back to the podium during this campaign.
Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, had a happier time on the podium at the Labour conference in Manchester on Wednesday than he had had in TV and radio studios on Tuesday.
In the Gobi desert I was enjoying competing for a podium position; playing at being at the sharp end of an ultramarathon.
If you look at the situation that we had last year, now every race weekend we are on the podium.
After a successful day on the water on Friday for the British sailing team Saturday afternoon proved a disappointment as the duo's podium hopes were extinguished.
One woman, Yasemin Ayarci, briefly threw the Tea Party rally in to chaos when she managed to push herself in to hear and stand in front of the podium holding a sign with a portrait of Jesus on it.
She did, and for the first time on a podium, the true stoic of her sport shed a quiet tear.
Waving aside the precedent of 1923, when the second-placed party last formed a government, cartoons would appear of Red Ed in the silver medal position on an Olympic podium trying to wrench the gold from David Cameron's grasp.
Poehler and Fey shared the podium to portray Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin to convey a message about sexism that put the American public on blast (while also making fun of Palin by saying "I can see Russia from my house!").
