Daniel Caluag

Daniel Patrick Manabat Caluag (born 15 January 1987) is a Filipino American BMX racer who competed for the Philippines in the BMX event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where he was eliminated after the qualifying heats. He won the men's elite gold medal at the 2013 Asian BMX Cycling Championships in Singapore, and on 1 October 2014 he won the first and only Philippine gold medal in BMX cycling at the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. The Philippine Sportswriters Association named him Athlete of the Year for 2014. Born in the United States to Filipino parents who worked in medicine, he trained as a nurse with his wife and has worked in the oncology and bone transplant unit of a hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, while his brother Christopher also rides.