India’s athletics community has suffered a major loss following the reported death of young sprinter Mrutyam Jayaram Dondapati in a road accident.
Dondapati, who was among India’s fastest U23 sprinters in 2025, reportedly died in an accident on the Cuttack highway late at night.
According to the information available, Dondapati was travelling with 400m runner Malay when the accident took place. The news has brought sadness to India’s athletics fraternity, which has lost one of its promising young talents.
Dondapati had emerged as a name to watch in Indian sprinting, and his reported death has come as a shock to those following the country’s athletics scene.
Further details about the accident and the circumstances surrounding his death were not immediately available.
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