Ashwini Chidananda Shetty Akkunji ( Born October 7, 1987 in Siddapura, Udupi, India) is an Indian sprint athlete from Karnataka. She 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.
Ashwini won a individual gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles on 25 November 2010 at the 2010 Asian Games held at Guangzhou, in China.
Ashwini Akkunji was given the Karnataka Rajyotsava Award in 2010. Ashwini is currently employed with the Indian Railways. 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.
In July 2011 prior to Asian athletics championships in Kobe (Japan) she was accused of using performance enhancing drugs along with seven other Indian athletes. She was subsequently dropped from the athletics team for the event and was suspended from athletics. On 23 December 2011 the NADA banned her for a year.
