Juan Taduran

Juan K. Taduran was a Filipino track and field athlete who competed in the decathlon and in middle-distance running events. In the 1920s he won three consecutive gold medals in the decathlon at the Far Eastern Championship Games – a forerunner of the Asian Games.

Taduran made his first international impact at the 1919 Far Eastern Championship Games in Manila, where he was the close runner-up to China's Chu Ente in the decathlon and placed third in the 880-yard run. He returned for the 1921 Games and defeated defending Ente in Shanghai to become the Far Eastern decathlon champion – the second Filipino to do so after Genaro Saavedra.

He won that title two more times successively at the 1923 Games and 1925 Games. This made him the second athlete to win three straight titles in an event at the competition, after multiple sprint champion Fortunato Catalon. Taduran also won an 800 metres bronze medal in his final appearance in 1925.