Lazraq-Khlass banned for whereabouts violation
French heptathlete Auriana Lazraq-Khlass has received a 22-month suspension from the Athletics Integrity Unit following three tracking system failures between February and November 2025. The 27-year-old European silver medallist accepted responsibility for two missed updates on the tracking application but unsuccessfully challenged a third instance involving a retroactive date error.
Although the disciplinary panel noted she was not trying to avoid testing, her negligence resulted in a ban extending until January 2028 alongside the annulment of her results from late November onward.
Lazraq-Khlass previously finished sixteenth at the Paris Olympic Games and claimed twelfth and eighteenth positions at the 2023 and 2025 World Championships respectively. Having already served a provisional ban starting in March, she will remain sidelined for nearly two years, keeping her out of competition until six months before the Los Angeles Olympic Games.
