Lisa Tertsch

Lisa Tertsch (born 1 December 1998) is a German triathlete and cross country runner.

Junior career
In 2015, she won junior European Cup races in Quarteira in Portugal, and Bled, Slovenia, and silver in the mixed relay at the 2015 European Triathlon Championships. In April 2016, she won the European junior duathlon title in Kalkar. She was runner-up to Taylor Knibb at the 2016 Junior World Championships in Cozumel, Mexico. In July of that year she won the German junior national title in Nürnberg. She also won silver in the junior event at the 2016 European Triathlon Championships behind Cassandre Beaugrand.

Cross country
She won gold with the U23 women at the 2018 European Cross Country Championships in Tilburg.

Triathlon
In August 2019, she won bronze in the women's U23 race at the Triathlon World Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland. That year, she took first place at the U23 European Championships and was number one in the European Cup rankings at the end of the season. In February 2020, she was named ETU Athlete of the Year.

She became German champion over the triathlon sprint distance in Berlin in 2021 and again in Dusseldorf in 2023.

She won World Triathlon Championship Series bronze in Hamburg in the summer of 2022. She finished second at the World Triathlon Championship Series Hamburg in July 2024.

In July 2024, she was a gold medalist at the World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships. She qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Personal life
She is a member of ASC Darmstadt. She studied economics at Harvard University.