Auriana Lazraq-Khlass suspended for 22 months over whereabouts failures
French heptathlete Auriana Lazraq-Khlass has received a 22-month ban for whereabouts failures, the Athletics Integrity Unit says. Her results since November 2025 have been annulled, costing her the French indoor pentathlon title.
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French heptathlete Auriana Lazraq-Khlass has been suspended for 22 months over errors in reporting her whereabouts for doping tests, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) says. Her results from 10 November 2025 have also been annulled, stripping her of the French indoor pentathlon title.
The 27-year-old, who won European Championship silver in the heptathlon in Rome in 2024, recorded three whereabouts failures within a year, according to the AIU. The ban is backdated to 26 March 2026 and runs until January 2028.
Lazraq-Khlass challenged only the third failure. She said she meant to update her location details for the following day but accidentally entered them for the same day. The AIU accepted that the error was unintentional, while finding that she had been careless.
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