Lisa Tertsch
 Tertsch in 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationality | German | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 December 1998[1] Offenbach am Main, Hesse, Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics, Triathlon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Cross country running | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lisa Tertsch (born 1 December 1998) is a German triathlete and cross country runner.
Early life and education
[edit]![[icon]](/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg){kind=small} | This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (September 2024) |
Lisa Tertsch was born in Offenbach am Main. She is a member of ASC Darmstadt. She studied economics at Harvard University,[2] from 2016 until summer 2021. In an interview with the FAZ she said, that until then, studying had been her top priority; sport was second. 2021 was also the Olympic qualification for Olympics in Tokyo, which she missed by a hair and she realized that if she pursued sports half-heartedly, it would be difficult to compete against competitors who invested more into sports.[3]
Career
[edit]Junior career
[edit]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.[1]
Cross country
[edit]She won gold with the U23 women at the 2018 European Cross Country Championships in Tilburg.[4]
Triathlon
[edit]In August 2019, she won bronze in the women's U23 race at the Triathlon World Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland.[5] 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.[6]
She became German champion over the triathlon sprint distance in Berlin in 2021 and again in Dusseldorf in 2023.[7]
She won World Triathlon Championship Series bronze in Hamburg in the summer of 2022.[1] She finished second at the World Triathlon Championship Series Hamburg in July 2024.[8]
In July 2024, she was a gold medalist at the World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships.[9]
She competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics. In the individual race held on 31 July 2024, an early crash in the bike section put paid to hopes for medal but she came back to secure a top ten finish.[10][11] Later at the Games she won a gold medal as part of the German mixed relay team. The following month, in her first race since the Olympics she won the Valencia World Cup.[12]
Personal life
[edit] | This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (September 2024) |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Tassell, Nigel (26 May 2024). "Lisa Tertsch: Background, career highlights, quotes". 220triathlon. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
- ^ Raatz, Wilfried. "European Championship gold for the German team with Lisa Tertsch". asc-darmstadt. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
- ^ Michael Eder (2024-09-12). "Triathletin Lisa Tertsch über ihren erfolgreichen Sonderweg zu Olympia 2024". FAZ (in German). Retrieved 2024-09-12.
- ^ "Lisa Tertsch runs to European Championship gold with U23 team". echo-online.de. 13 December 2018. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
- ^ "Lisa Tertsch storms to bronze at Triathlon World Championships". Echo-online. 31 August 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
- ^ Weber, Marvin (17 February 2020). "Lisa Tertsch is voted ETU Athlete of the Year". tri-mag. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
- ^ Eisenhofer, Thorsten (9 July 2023). "The finals: Lisa Tertsch storms to the German championship". Triathlon Deutschland. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
- ^ "Peerless Cassandre Beaugrand makes it two from two to hit Paris as favourite". Triathlon.org. 13 July 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
- ^ "Team Germany defends Mixed Relay world title to deliver Olympic warning shot to rivals". Triathlon.org. 14 July 2024. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
- ^ "German triathlon medal dream shattered by fall chaos". aussiedlerbote. 31 July 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ Barratt, Liz (9 July 2024). "Which triathletes have qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games?". 220 Triathlon. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
- ^ Cernuda, Olalla (14 September 2024). "Lisa Tertsch outruns the field to take the tape at the Valencia World Cup". Triathlon.org. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
- 1998 births
- Living people
- German female triathletes
- German female cross country runners
- Sportspeople from Darmstadt
- 21st-century German sportswomen
- Harvard University alumni
- Harvard Crimson women's track and field athletes
- Harvard Crimson women's cross country runners
- Triathletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Germany
- Olympic medalists in triathlon
- Olympic triathletes for Germany