Ashwini Akkunji
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| Birth name | Ashwini Chidananda Shetty Akkunji | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Ashwini Chidananda Shetty Akkunji | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Gensale Express | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Indian | |||||||||||||||||||||
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7 October 1987 Siddapura, Udupi, India |
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| Height | 184 cm (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | India | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) |
400 m: 52.82 (Bangalore 2011) 400 m hurdles: 56.15 (Guangzhou 2010) |
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Ashwini Chidananda Shetty Akkunji (born 7 October 1987) is an Indian sprint athlete from Siddapura, Udupi who specializes in 400 metres. 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 and an individual gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles on 25 November 2010 at the 2010 Asian Games held at Guangzhou, in China. She is also a recipient of the Rajyotsava Prashasti (2010), a civilian honour awarded by the Indian State Government of Karnataka
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. Ashwini hails from an agriculturist family. with a sporting legacy. 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. Earlier, Ashwini was employed with the Indian Railways, and presently works as a manager in Corporation Bank, Patiala, Punjab.
In July 2011 prior to Asian athletics championships in Kobe (Japan) she tested positive for anabolic steroids. 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. 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.
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