Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN African Championship South Africa · 6 editions (2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023) · 6,932 finishers

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How to read it: in each row, the time under "Top 10%" is the time of the slowest athlete who still made the fastest 10% of the age group. Beat that time and you are in. Age groups with fewer than 5 finishers are omitted. Finishers only.

Men

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 5,660 8:20:04 9:12:52 9:46:15 10:29:22 12:02:53 7:11:44
MPRO 94 7:11:44 7:27:55 7:40:12 7:54:22 8:24:42 7:11:44
M18-24 82 8:01:35 9:03:15 9:21:40 9:59:40 11:40:02 8:01:35
M25-29 350 8:35:15 9:03:40 9:36:42 10:19:44 11:40:40 8:08:39
M30-34 776 8:38:29 9:17:05 9:39:16 10:18:39 11:55:27 8:08:48
M35-39 1,033 8:23:39 9:03:53 9:35:43 10:20:22 11:50:11 8:09:12
M40-44 1,177 8:37:48 9:20:11 9:49:45 10:31:44 12:00:12 7:51:49
M45-49 1,020 8:55:55 9:39:56 10:04:40 10:46:43 12:18:09 8:10:33
M50-54 596 8:46:48 9:45:33 10:07:55 10:47:51 12:12:25 8:27:54
M55-59 341 9:23:14 10:04:49 10:33:23 11:10:56 12:42:13 9:12:52
M60-64 138 9:49:41 10:12:01 10:32:09 11:14:19 12:55:53 9:25:55
M65-69 44 10:56:04 11:26:11 11:34:52 12:14:30 13:30:33 10:56:04
M70-74 8 11:16:59 11:16:59 11:16:59 11:38:17 13:31:28 11:16:59

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 1,272 8:51:21 9:41:44 10:17:26 11:06:40 12:39:38 8:01:59
FPRO 50 8:01:59 8:17:25 8:22:13 8:43:18 9:24:37 8:01:59
F18-24 21 10:07:35 10:11:59 10:15:18 11:52:18 13:10:15 10:07:35
F25-29 100 9:11:00 9:40:54 10:13:06 10:43:21 12:14:04 9:11:00
F30-34 209 9:04:28 9:57:57 10:24:12 11:10:51 12:27:44 8:41:17
F35-39 220 9:05:10 9:41:44 10:20:17 11:01:08 12:41:48 8:51:21
F40-44 235 9:30:12 10:01:54 10:36:49 11:17:42 12:34:03 8:58:10
F45-49 206 10:13:20 10:34:40 10:47:56 11:26:35 12:57:55 9:57:02
F50-54 145 9:54:26 10:45:21 11:14:01 11:38:11 13:06:56 9:46:35
F55-59 58 9:27:54 10:08:34 10:34:22 11:49:05 13:24:51 9:27:54
F60-64 22 10:43:24 11:10:49 11:59:26 12:47:16 13:39:39 10:43:24
F65-69 6 14:03:18 14:03:18 14:03:18 14:20:26 14:32:17 14:03:18

Source: Seffrin A., Nikolaidis P.T., Andrade M.S., Villiger E., Rosemann T., Weiss K., Ferreira D., Knechtle B. (2026). A dataset of 2.7 million IRONMAN triathlon records with transition times (2002-2026), v3.0.0. Zenodo. CC BY 4.0. doi:10.5281/zenodo.22097794.