Ashwini Akkunji

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Ashwini Akkunji
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Ashwini in 2014
Personal information
Birth nameAshwini Chidananda Shetty Akkunji
Full nameAshwini Chidananda Shetty Akkunji
Nicknamejansale express
NationalityIndian
Born (1987-10-07) 7 October 1987 (age 36)
Siddapura, Udupi, India
Height184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Sport
CountryIndia
Sport Athletics
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)400 m: 52.82 (Bangalore 2011)
400 m hurdles: 56.15 (Guangzhou 2010)
Medal record
Women’s athletics
Representing Flag of India.svg  India
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Delhi 4x400 m relay
Asian Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Guangzhou 400 m hurdles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Guangzhou 4x400 m relay
South Asian Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Guwahati 400 m hurdles

Ashwini Chidananda Shetty Akkunji (born 7 October 1987) is an Indian sprint athlete from Siddapura, Udupi who specializes in 400 metres. [1] Ashwini has won gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2010 Asian Games in 4x400 m relay team event with Manjeet Kaur, Mandeep Kaur and Sini Jose [2] and an individual gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles on 25 November 2010 at the 2010 Asian Games held at Guangzhou, in China. [3] She is also a recipient of the Rajyotsava Prashasti (2010), a civilian honour awarded by the Indian State Government of Karnataka [4] [5]

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Bio

Born in Siddapura, Udupi, Kundapura taluk, Udupi district, Karnataka, she was raised in a Tulu-speaking family to her mother, Yashoda Shetty Akkunji and father, B.R. Chidananda Shetty. [6] [7] Ashwini hails from an agriculturist family. [8] with a sporting legacy. [9] She grew up on her family's 5 acre farmland amidst Areca nut plantations along with her elder siblings a sister, Dipti and a brother, Amith. [10] Earlier, Ashwini was employed with the Indian Railways, and as a manager in Corporation bank in Patiala, Punjab [11] and presently works as a coach in Sports Authority of India Bangalore. [12]

Doping

In July 2011 prior to Asian athletics championships in Kobe (Japan) she tested positive for anabolic steroids. [13] She was subsequently dropped from the athletics team for the event and was suspended from athletics. She denied the charges but on 23 December 2011 the NADA banned her for a year. [14] The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld an appeal by the International Association of Athletics Federations against lighter sentences and handed Ashwini and 5 other athletes (Mandeep Kaur, Sini Jose, Jauna Murmu, Tiana Mary and Priyanka Panwar) a two-year ban. [15]

Awards, rewards and recognition

She was given the Karnataka Rajyotsava Award in 2010. This comprised a cash payment of one hundred thousand Rupees, a 20 gramme gold medallion and a grant of priority in the allotment of house sites by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA). [16] She has been rewarded financially by both the national and state governments, as well as Indian Railways, in recognition of the gold medals won in 2010. [17] [18] [19] [20]

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