Ashwini Akkunji

On track for Rio: Indian women relay team enhance qualification bid for 2016 Olympics

The Indian women 4x400m relay quartet of Jauna Murmu, Ashwini Akkunji, Anilda Thomas and M R Poovamma enhanced its Rio Olympic Games qualification chances by winning a gold medal at the PTS athletics Grand Prix with an impressive timing of 3:31.39.

Government never ignored Jwala, Ashwini for TOP scheme: Sports Ministry

The Sport Ministry today made it clear that it never ignored ace doubles shuttlers Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa for the Target Olympic Podium (TOP) Scheme, saying the Identification Committee had considered their names during the meeting held last month.

TOP scheme controversy: Gutta-Ashwini left out; drug-tainted athletes included

The Sports Ministry has added 39 more athletes to the Target Olympic Podium scheme (TOP). Courting controversy they have also named five of the six women quartermilers who were suspended for anti-doping rule violations between 2011 and 2013 on this list.

CWG: Fresh after return from doping ban, Ashwini Akkunji promises medal

Akkunji & Co lose doping case in CAS, banned for 2 yrs

Six quartermilers, including Asian Games double gold medallist Ashwini Akkunji, who were caught for steroid doping last year, lost their case in the Court of Arbitration for Sports in Lausanne, Switzerland, as it upheld the IAAF's appeal to impose two-year ban on them.

Will probe how tainted athletes are training at SAI: Maken

Maken today admitted that this was a serious issue and they were probing the matter.

WADA wants two-year ban for Ashwini & Co

Not satisfied with the one-year ban handed out to top four Indian quartermilers, including Asian Games double gold medallist Ashwini Akkunji, in the doping scandal, the World Anti-Doping Agency has appealed for a two-year sanction on them.

Akkunji, 5 others, handed one-year ban for doping

India's six top women athletes, including Asian Games double gold-medallist Ashwini Akkunji, were today handed one-year bans for flunking dope tests earlier this year.

Doping continues in athletics, three more caught for steroids

Three more track and field competitors returning positive for steroids in the tests conducted during the National Open Championships held in Kolkata last month.

Ashwini claims innocence, blames vitamin supplements