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{{short description|Indian sprinter, actress}}
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|birth_place = [[Karnataka]], India
|occupation = [[track and field]] athlete and actress
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'''Ashwini Nachappa''' (born 21 October 1967) is an accomplished former [[track and field]] athlete and an [[Indian film]] [[actress]] from [[Karnataka]].

Nachappa gained fame around the start of the 1980s, when she outran [[P.T. Usha]] on two occasions. She has been referred to as India's [[FloJo]].<ref name="tracks">{{cite web|url=http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=86406|title=Changing tracks|last=Nayudu|first=Vinay|date=2 June 2004|publisher=Mumbai Newsline|accessdate=2009-04-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040618004931/http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=86406|archive-date=18 June 2004|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1988 she received the [[Arjuna award]].<ref name="sportstar">{{cite web|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/tss/tss2912/stories/20060325004402600.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070505102851/http://www.hinduonnet.com/tss/tss2912/stories/20060325004402600.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=5 May 2007|title= One Ashwini, many roles|last=K. Bhagya|first=Prakash|date=25 March 2006|work=Vol. 29 No. 12|publisher=Sportstar Weekly|accessdate=2009-04-22}}</ref>

== Career ==
Ashwini Nachappa began her career in [[track and field]] as a [[hurdler]] before making the switch to [[sprint (running)|sprint]]s. She performed well at the 1981 Inter-State Championship in [[Bangalore]] in the under-16 category and won the 'most promising athlete of the meet' award. She trained under many coaches during the time till the late 1980s, when Sunil Abraham began to coach her.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kumar |first1=Sharan |title=AAFI belittles Ashwini |work=The Indian Express |date=19 July 1990 |page=15}}</ref>

Nachappa represented India in three [[South Asian Federation Games]] in 1984 (in [[Nepal]]; two [[silver medal]]s), 1986 (in [[Bangladesh]]; two silver medals) and 1988 (in [[Pakistan]], three [[gold medal]]s). She participated in two Asian Games, one held in 1986 at [[South Korea]] (6th in [[long jump]]) and the other in 1990 at [[Beijing]], [[China]] (silver medal in [[4 x 100 metres relay|4 × 100 m relay]]). She also represented India in two [[World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]], one in [[1987 World Championships in Athletics|1987 in Rome]] and the other in [[1991 World Championships in Athletics|1991 in Tokyo]] (she was a member of the [[4 x 400 metres relay|4 × 400 m relay]] on both occasions).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cleansportsindia.org/mrs-ashwini-nachappa/ |title=Mrs. Ashwini Nachappa - CleansportsIndia |access-date=19 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924102931/http://cleansportsindia.org/mrs-ashwini-nachappa |archive-date=24 September 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She won the 200 m gold at the 1990 National Open Meet in [[New Delhi]] ahead of Usha, clocking 24.07 seconds.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pritam |first1=Norris |title=Ashwini stuns Usa in 200 m |work=The Indian Express |date=22 July 1990 |page=14}}</ref>

==Cinema and other works==
She has acted in a few [[Telugu cinema|Telugu]] feature films, including her own [[biographical film]] titled ''[[Ashwini (film)|Ashwini]]'', for which she received the state [[Nandi Award]] for Best Debut Actress.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.karnataka.com/personalities/ashwini-nachappa/ | title=A Sportsperson Cum Superstar – Ashwini Nachappa | date=4 November 2011 | author=Madur | publisher=Karnataka.com | accessdate=30 April 2018 }}</ref>

A noted social worker and educationist,<ref name="sportstar" /> she has also built a school.

She is currently the president of the Bangalore Urban District Athletics Association.<ref>{{cite news |title= Former athlete Ashwini Nachappa sends directive on AFI elections |url= http://sports.ndtv.com/othersports/athletics/205892-former-athlete-ashwini-nachappa-sends-directive-on-afi-elections |publisher= NDTV |date= 2013-04-06 |accessdate= 2013-05-12 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140117080842/http://sports.ndtv.com/othersports/athletics/205892-former-athlete-ashwini-nachappa-sends-directive-on-afi-elections |archive-date= 17 January 2014 |url-status= dead }}</ref>

==Filmography==
* ''[[Ashwini (film)|Ashwini]]'' (1991)
* ''Inspector Ashwini'' (1993)
* ''[[Aadarsam]]'' (1993)
* ''Miss 420'' (1995)<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3760529/ Ashwini Nachappa - IMDb]</ref>
* ''Andaroo Andare'' (1996)

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|3760529}}

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[[Category:1967 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Arjuna Award]]
[[Category:Actresses from Bangalore]]
[[Category:Indian female sprinters]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian women]]
[[Category:Nandi Award winners]]
[[Category:Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Athletes from Bangalore]]
[[Category:Actresses in Telugu cinema]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian actresses]]
[[Category:Indian film actresses]]
[[Category:Sportswomen from Karnataka]]
[[Category:Athletes from Karnataka]]
[[Category:Asian Games silver medalists for India]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games]]
[[Category:South Asian Games gold medalists for India]]
[[Category:South Asian Games silver medalists for India]]
[[Category:South Asian Games medalists in athletics]]

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