In a tragic highway accident, Dondapati Mrutyum Jayaram, a promising athlete who introduced laurels to the nation on the nationwide and worldwide ranges, died in a highway accident close to Cuttack late on Wednesday (October 21, 2026) night.
Jayaram, together with Malay Barik, one other athlete, was travelling to Cuttack to have a good time Dussehra once they reportedly misplaced management of their motorbike and crashed right into a highway median. Docs at SCB Medical School and Hospital in Cuttack declared each of them introduced useless.
Initially hailing from Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, he lived in Bhabanipatna, Kalahandi district, Odisha. He skilled on the Odisha Reliance Basis Athletics Excessive Efficiency Centre in Bhubaneswar below coaches Rohit Mane and Martin Owens.
A promising expertise within the 100-metre and 200-metre sprints and the 4×100-metre relay, Jayaram has represented Odisha’s junior and senior groups and India’s Beneath-20 males’s group. The departed athlete received one silver and one bronze medal within the 4×100m relay and the 100m dash, respectively, within the 4th South Asian Junior Athletics Championship, held on the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai from September 11–13, 2024.
In addition to, he was a part of the Indian males’s 4×100m relay group that received the bronze medal with a nationwide file of 40.01 seconds within the twenty first Asian Junior (U-20) Athletics Championships on the Dubai Police Stadium in Dubai on April 27, 2024.
Lately, he had received one silver and one bronze medal in males’s 200m and 100m run respectively on the sixth Indian Open U-23 athletics competitors held Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur, October 16-18, 2026.
Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi condoled demise athletes saying their premature passing was a profound loss to Odisha’s sporting fraternity.
Printed – October 23, 2026 01:20 am IST
