Canadian swimmer Penny Oleksiak has been given a two-year competition ban for an anti-doping rule violation, the International Testing Agency announced Wednesday.

The agency said Oleksiak committed three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period between Oct. 2024 and June 2025.

She did not contest the anti-doping rule violation. The suspension is retroactive from July 15, 2025, when she first accepted a voluntary provisional suspension and she will be ineligible to compete until July 14, 2027.

Oleksiak withdrew from the swimming world championships back in July. “I am and always have been a clean athlete and will be making no further comment at this time,” she wrote on social media at the time.

The 25-year-old has won seven Olympic medals for Canada and became the first Canadian to

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