About Podium
Where it started
Podium started with a medal. Actually — several. Hanging around the house, tucked in a box, a trophy wrapped in newspaper so it wouldn't rust. Reean had collected them over years of competing and every time she did a clear-out, she'd get to that box and stop. She could never throw them away. They meant something.
At some point she started writing her race times directly onto her BIBs — 5K, half marathon, full marathon — so she wouldn't have to keep hunting down official results pages every time someone asked. The results lived on different sites, buried behind logins and race-specific portals. There was no single place where all of it lived together.
After her first full marathon, the race photos came out and they looked great. She thought about buying them. But in the end she didn't — and instead screenshotted them through the watermark and left them there, knowing they'd get posted once on Instagram and then disappear into a camera roll never looked at again.
When she started building Podium, she went back and bought those photos. Because now there was somewhere to put them — alongside the results, the certificates, the BIBs. Everything together, in one place, permanently.
That's where Podium came from. Not a product idea — a feeling. The feeling of having done something real and having no permanent place to put it.
The gap
Most medals end up in a drawer, pinned to a cork board, or stuffed into a box under the bed. They represent real work — months of training, early starts, race-day nerves — and then they just sit there, seen by nobody.
Certificates have moved online, but they're buried in email inboxes or forgotten PDFs. Some races have gone medal-free entirely. And HYROX gives out patches — a physical token of a serious achievement — and athletes are left finding somewhere to put them. People buy specially designed bags with velcro just to have a place to display what they've earned.
The achievement is real. The proof exists. But there's no single place where it all lives — no public, permanent home that tells the full story of who you are as an athlete.
That's the gap. Podium fills it.
Who we are
Podium is built by an athlete, for athletes. Reean is a runner and everyday competitor who felt this gap firsthand — finishing her first marathon at SCMS in December 2025 and realising there was nowhere to put that story that the world could actually find.
Sport shaped everything: the discipline, the understanding that a little extra in your own time — when no one is watching — is what separates people. Podium is that belief applied to a product.
Our vision
A world where every athlete — from first-time finishers to seasoned competitors — has a permanent, public identity that travels with them. One profile that grows with every race, every PB, every comeback. Not a feed. Not a highlight reel. A record.
We want coaches to be able to find talent they would have missed. We want athletes to be discovered not just by who was in the room on race day, but by what their profile says about years of showing up. We want the work to be visible — permanently.
That starts with your profile. It doesn't end there. Podium is building toward being the place athletes go before a race, too — not just after — so the same identity that holds your history can carry you into what's next.
What Podium is
- A permanent public profile at a custom URL you own
- A log of your race results, personal bests, and finisher certificates
- A countdown to your next race and a record of upcoming goals
- A shareable athlete identity — think Strava's public profile, without the activity feed
Lifetime membership
Podium is free to use. Lifetime memberships are one-time purchases available to early supporters who want to lock in lifetime perks before a Pro tier launches. Each comes with permanent recognition on your profile.
Contact
Questions, feedback, or partnership inquiries: hello@podium.bio