PARIS: French heptathlete Auriana Lazraq-Khlass, the current European silver medallist, has been provisionally suspended for failing to comply with her anti-doping whereabouts requirements, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Monday.

“The AIU has provisionally suspended Auriana Lazraq Khlass [France] for Whereabouts Failures,” the AIU posted on social media.

The AIU did not specify either the date of the breaches or their nature.

Such a breach could involve either location data that was recorded incorrectly or too late in the software used by athletes to report their whereabouts or a no-show, meaning the athlete’s absence from the registered location during an unannounced test.

A provisional suspension may be imposed after three breaches within a twelve-month period.

The 26-year-old Lazraq-Khlass, who claimed silver at the European Championships in Rome in 2024, faces a two-year ban.

She finished 16th in the heptathlon at the Paris Olympics but has been plagued by injuries since, and was unable to compete at the World Championships in Tokyo last year.

Published in Dawn, March 31st, 2026