Laila Traby (born 26 March 1979) is a French runner. She won a bronze medal at the 2014 European Championships in Zürich in the 10,000 metres event. Three months after the championship, she was found by police with EPO in her apartment while training in the Pyrenees. She subsequently underwent a doping test. Traby began her athletic career at the Institute of Sports at

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. She said her Sahrawi origins had not allowed her to progress in her birth country. She accused the Moroccan Federation of athletics of depriving her of a selection to the Pan Arab Games in 2004 by adding a second to her qualifying time. She emigrated to France, undocumented, in 2005 and was naturalized in 2013. His career really began in 2013, when she won a team silver medal at the

2013 European Cross Country Championships The 2013 European Cross Country Championships was the 20th edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes which was held in Belgrade, Serbia, on 8 December 2013. The senior individual winners were Alemayehu Bezabeh of Spain ...

. Within a year, she surprised everyone by improving nearly three minutes his record over 10 km, from 34 min 36 sec to 31 min 56 s. . In 2014, she won the title of champion of France in the 5000 m. A month later, at the

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, she won the bronze medal in the 10 000 m. On 7 November, the police raided the apartment occupied by Traby where she lived in during an internship in Font-Romeu, a place of high altitude training for French distance runners. Several EPO ampoules and syringes were left in a refrigerator. According to Le Monde, the athlete would not say she was Traby, before starting to speak in Arabic only, and refusing sign any papers. This led the police to the place her in custody. A blood test confirmed the presence of EPO in her body. She said she was a "victim of a conspiracy," since EPO can not be administered by injection intravenously. On May 18, 2015, she was suspended three years by the French Agency for doping.

Personal Bests

800 m The 800 metres, or meters ( US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since the ...

: 2:03,27, 7 July 2004,

1500 m The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...

: 4:11,31, 12 July 2009, Tanger *

3000 m The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000m shoul ...

: 9:22,66, 6 May 2012, Martigues *

5000 m The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a stand ...

: 15:48,23, 22 June 2014, Braunschweig *

10000 m The 10,000 metres or the 10,000-metre run is a common long-distance track running event. The event is part of the athletics programme at the Olympic Games and the World Athletics Championships, and is common at championship level events. The race ...

: 32:26,03, 12 August 2014, Zürich

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* 1979 births Living people French female long-distance runners Moroccan female long-distance runners Doping cases in athletics French sportspeople in doping cases European Athletics Championships medalists {{France-longdistance-athletics-bio-stub