What is a platform that is used to honor the top three competitors in events called?
In sports, a type of podium can be used to honor the top three competitors in events. In the modern Olympics a tri-level podium is used. Traditionally, the highest platform is in the center for the gold medalist. To their right is a lower platform for the silver medalist, and to the left of the gold medalist is a lower platform for the bronze medalist. At the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, the Silver and Bronze podium places were of equal elevation.
Podiums were first used at the 1930 British Empire Games (now Commonwealth Games) in Hamilton, Ontario and subsequently during the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid and the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
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John W Shreve
Used usually as a judgment seat but also where athletic victors were crowned with their rewards, you had the Greek βῆμα or 𝑏𝑒𝑚𝑎.
chipdhf
The question needs better answer choices, like grandstand, reviewing stand, and bleachers
Lynda Flanger
Marianne
You are thinking of a lectern. Modern English tends to use podium instead but actually podium derives from foot and and is what the stage or base of a structure is called.
It sounds funny to us because our ears have been trained to have it refer to the wrong thing.
Albeck1994
Marianne Frederick Halterman, no it is called a podium, as far as I know a dais is like a pulpit or lectern
Marianne Frederick Halterman
Should be "dais"....a low platform for a lectern, seats or a throne. Podium is a more like a pulpit, a place where you can give a speech to an audience.