Lisa Tertsch

Lisa Tertsch, born on 1 December 1998 in Offenbach am Main, is a German triathlete and cross country runner who belongs to ASC Darmstadt. She studied economics at Harvard University from 2016 until summer 2021 and decided to commit fully to sport after narrowly missing qualification for the Tokyo Olympics. As a junior she was runner-up to Taylor Knibb at the 2016 Junior World Championships, and she won gold with the U23 women at the 2018 European Cross Country Championships. In 2019 she won the U23 European Championships and took bronze in the U23 race at the World Championships in Lausanne, and she became German sprint champion in 2021 and again in 2023. At the 2024 Paris Olympics she came back from an early crash on the bike to finish in the top ten of the individual race and won a gold medal with the German mixed relay team; the following month she won the Valencia World Cup.