French heptathlete Auriana Lazraq-Khlass has been suspended for 22 months for failing to adjust to anti-doping guidelines.
Lazraq-Khlass, the 2024 European silver medallist, was accused of three breaches of the whereabouts necessities between February and November 2025.
The World Anti-Doping Code states an athlete can’t miss three anti-doping exams and/or submitting failures inside a 12-month interval.
“The Disciplinary Tribunal has suspended Auriana Lazraq-Khlass for 22 months with impact from 26 March 2026 for breaches of her whereabouts obligations,” the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) wrote on X, exterior.
The 27-year-old didn’t contest her first two breaches, having didn’t replace her whereabouts within the app that permits the anti-doping authorities to trace athletes.
She did contest the third breach, saying that when she tried to replace her whereabouts for the next day, it was as an alternative utilized retrospectively to the identical day.
The tribunal mentioned that whereas Lazraq-Khlass “didn’t look like trying to evade testing” she had however displayed “carelessness and negligence”.
The punishment of a 22-month suspension is barely lower than the potential two-year most, whereas her outcomes going again to twenty November 2025 can be worn out.
Lazraq-Khlass had been provisionally suspended since March and can stay out of motion till January 2028, six months previous to the 2028 Olympic Video games in Los Angeles.
She competed on the 2024 Olympics in Paris and completed sixteenth and in addition secured twelfth and 18th-place finishes on the 2023 and 2025 World Championships.
