Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN Arizona 2021 · 1,932 finishers

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 1,452 9:14:55 10:11:38 10:52:06 11:41:37 13:32:18 8:23:30
M18-24 24 9:23:38 10:09:24 10:11:12 10:52:54 13:03:27 9:23:38
M25-29 75 8:48:33 9:28:13 10:00:24 10:38:54 12:56:25 8:48:33
M30-34 152 8:38:46 9:33:26 10:11:48 11:03:46 12:48:11 8:23:30
M35-39 192 8:53:19 9:56:45 10:27:39 11:33:02 13:12:45 8:40:54
M40-44 235 9:20:31 10:00:51 10:47:59 11:31:39 13:21:37 8:56:34
M45-49 240 9:53:29 10:30:16 11:03:02 11:46:48 13:22:53 9:36:07
M50-54 274 9:35:20 10:24:01 10:56:53 11:48:02 13:37:54 9:29:13
M55-59 152 10:40:58 11:09:29 12:05:19 12:48:05 14:22:33 10:36:14
M60-64 74 10:51:17 11:14:21 12:13:52 13:16:17 14:29:12 10:51:17
M65-69 25 11:23:21 11:57:30 12:50:45 13:38:35 15:21:25 11:23:21
M70-74 6 12:53:24 12:53:24 12:53:24 15:27:52 15:43:07 12:53:24

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 480 10:12:42 10:58:46 11:39:11 12:30:45 14:16:27 9:57:34
F25-29 32 9:57:34 10:36:24 10:40:56 11:36:11 14:12:58 9:57:34
F30-34 56 10:12:42 11:03:29 11:22:27 11:56:31 13:51:14 10:12:42
F35-39 56 10:02:05 10:18:56 10:43:08 11:36:18 13:59:36 10:02:05
F40-44 89 10:24:08 11:18:55 12:03:59 12:31:20 13:53:07 10:24:08
F45-49 99 10:12:06 10:51:00 11:21:11 12:28:58 14:03:23 10:12:06
F50-54 77 10:58:46 11:17:13 12:05:07 12:42:54 14:36:15 10:58:46
F55-59 39 12:58:15 13:08:14 13:34:22 13:59:01 15:06:32 12:58:15
F60-64 21 12:36:11 12:55:28 13:20:37 13:46:05 15:10:11 12:36:11
F65-69 6 13:11:42 13:11:42 13:11:42 14:45:25 14:50:33 13:11:42

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.