Danijel Korica (Serbian Cyrillic: Данијел Корица, born 10 June 1945), better known by his nickname Dane in his home country, is a Serbian retired long-distance runner who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

At the age of thirteen he suffered a serious leg injury from a freak accident for which he was immediately sent to the hospital.

After his condition deteriorated, there was a possibility that he would have to spend the rest of his life in a wheel chair.

At the time, long-distance running was not a well-known occupation in Yugoslavia, and the villagers often looked at Korica as though he was crazy.

One neighbor, assuming that Korica spent more time running than helping his parents, allegedly threatened if he ran on his property "with those nails on his shoes" (a reference to track spikes), that he would attack Korica with a hoe.