Auriana Lazraq-Khlass
Auriana Lazraq-Khlass
Lazraq-Khlass at the 2024 Olympics
Personal information
NationalityFrench
Born (1999-04-22) 22 April 1999
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
Heptathlon
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)Pentathlon: 4394 (Aubiére, 2023)Heptathlon: 6635 (Rome, 2024)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  France
European Championships
Silver medal – second place2024 RomeHeptathlon

Auriana Lazraq-Khlass (born 22 April 1999) is a French track and field athlete who competes in multi-events. She won the French Athletics Championships in the Heptathlon in 2024, and won the silver medal at the 2024 European Athletics Championships.[1]

Early life

She was born in Pithiviers, Loiret before her family moved to Marly near Metz in the Moselle department. She started athletics at the age of five years-old after being inspired by the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. She later moved to Montpellier to train before returning to Metz during the Coronavirus pandemic. She began to train full-time in athletics in 2022, with Julien Choffart as her coach.[2][3][4]

Career

Lazraq-Klass recorded a new Pentathlon personal best score in Clermont of 4394 in January 2023.[5]

She recorded a new Heptathlon personal best in Montpellier when she recorded over 6000 points for the first time in May 2023.[6] She was runner-up at the French national championships in the Heptathlon in Albi in July 2023 with a new personal best tally of 6153 points.[7][8] She was selected to compete at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023.[9] She scored a new personal best score of 6179 points and finished twelfth overall.[10]

She won the French national championships in the Heptathlon in Oyonnax in May 2024 with a personal best tally of 6209 points.[11] She was a silver medalist in the heptathlon at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, setting five individual personal bests during the competition, and scoring a total personal best of 6635 points.[12][13] She competed in the heptathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, finishing in sixteenth place overall.[14]

She had a delayed start to her 2025 season, having to overcome a stress fracture to her heel, a tropical parasite, surgery on her right shoulder and plantar fasciitis. After returning to competition she scored 5,888 points for the heptathlon in Laval in July 2025.[15] In September 2025, she completed the heptathlon at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, placing eighteenth.[16][17]

Personal bests

Heptathlon
Event Performance Place Meeting Date
100 metres hurdles13 s 35 Rome2024 European Athletics Championships7 June 2024
High jump1.77m Rome2024 European Athletics Championships7 June 2024
Shot put15.27m Rome2024 European Athletics Championships7 June 2024
200 metres23 s 56 Rome2024 European Athletics Championships7 June 2024
Long jump6.38m MontpellierMeeting National à thème Défi Athlon de Montpellier 30 May 2021
Javelin48.23m Rome2024 European Athletics Championships8 June 2024
800 metres2 min 12 s 07 Rome2024 European Athletics Championships8 June 2024
Heptathlon6635 pts Rome2024 European Athletics Championships8 June 2024

References

  1. ^"A.Lazraq-Khlass". World Athletics. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  2. ^"Who are the athletes from Lorraine taking part in the World Championships in Budapest?". euro.day.fr.com. 18 August 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  3. ^Lapart, Joscelyn (July 26, 2024). "Discover the Moselle athletes to watch at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games". Tout-metz.com. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
  4. ^"Auriana Lazraq-Khlass: Who is the eccentric French athlete?". Linternaute.fr. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
  5. ^"LAZRAQ-KHLASS, STEY, XAE and CHOQUERT in great shape!". large.athle.fr. 31 January 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  6. ^"Les huit travaux d'Auriana Lazraq-Khlass". Republicain-Lorrain.fr. 19 June 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  7. ^"Silver medalist in Albi, Auriana Lazraq-Khlass (A2M) never stops climbing". Republicain-Lorrain.fr. 30 July 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  8. ^"Clémence Beretta and Auriana Lazraq-Khlass silver medalists in Albi". estrerepublicain.fr. July 30, 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  9. ^Vaucher, Jonathan (7 August 2023). "Athletics: heptathlete Auriana Lazraq-Khlass will go to Budapest". Moselle.tv. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  10. ^"Women's Heptathlon Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". Watch Athletics. 20 August 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  11. ^"French Combined Events". World Athletics. 17 May 2024. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  12. ^"European Championships: Auriana Lazraq-Khlass wants to see Rome and mature". Republicain-lorrain. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  13. ^"Thiam shows her strength with a heptathlon hat-trick". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
  14. ^"Women's Heptathlon Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 9 August 2024. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  15. ^Legronne, Victor (6 July 2025). "In her first heptathlon since the Paris Olympics, Lazraq-Khlass achieved 5888 points". Lequipe. Retrieved 7 July 2025.
  16. ^"World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 21 Sep 2025. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  17. ^"La sélection française". Athle.fr. 1 September 2025. Retrieved 2 September 2025.

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