Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN Argentina · 4 editions (2017, 2018, 2019, 2022) · 2,667 finishers

Editions: 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2022

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 2,386 8:35:22 9:13:34 9:32:58 10:04:01 11:26:13 7:30:23
MPRO 31 7:30:23 7:39:47 7:46:39 7:55:53 8:26:03 7:30:23
M18-24 24 8:41:06 8:45:23 9:01:33 9:19:57 10:26:31 8:41:06
M25-29 110 8:45:21 9:02:25 9:20:00 9:45:54 11:12:38 8:31:31
M30-34 245 8:45:59 9:03:55 9:15:11 9:36:37 10:55:18 8:29:47
M35-39 450 8:48:06 9:06:11 9:22:13 9:46:03 10:58:04 8:43:57
M40-44 528 8:59:25 9:24:11 9:37:35 10:08:17 11:11:59 8:42:49
M45-49 468 9:08:01 9:27:04 9:50:16 10:20:17 11:37:11 8:54:10
M50-54 308 9:24:51 9:44:07 9:58:50 10:36:27 12:02:09 8:59:58
M55-59 153 9:42:43 10:10:12 10:40:09 11:12:06 12:37:46 9:33:18
M60-64 48 10:07:44 10:47:03 10:50:30 11:32:06 13:19:03 10:07:44
M65-69 18 11:27:47 11:27:47 11:57:37 12:43:28 13:31:23 11:27:47

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 281 8:28:57 9:25:33 9:54:54 10:26:14 11:55:24 8:20:17
FPRO 25 8:20:17 8:23:40 8:28:57 8:32:59 9:24:54 8:20:17
F25-29 21 9:45:18 9:47:43 10:02:30 10:19:22 10:57:53 9:45:18
F30-34 41 9:19:13 9:48:28 9:55:41 10:11:30 11:56:11 9:19:13
F35-39 43 9:54:08 10:04:53 10:14:15 10:42:30 11:41:16 9:54:08
F40-44 49 9:57:06 10:19:52 10:23:18 10:52:20 12:02:07 9:57:06
F45-49 56 9:32:42 10:24:02 10:39:16 11:21:05 12:14:43 9:32:42
F50-54 27 10:45:13 10:51:14 11:22:19 11:33:39 12:52:43 10:45:13
F55-59 11 11:05:49 11:05:49 11:27:54 11:35:28 12:57:03 11:05:49

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.