Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN Arizona · 21 editions (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) · 43,161 finishers

Editions: 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2008 b · 2009 · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025

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 32,096 8:52:06 9:55:03 10:30:39 11:18:54 12:54:20 7:28:52
MPRO 556 7:44:29 8:03:14 8:12:55 8:24:13 8:52:50 7:28:52
M18-24 860 9:14:08 9:58:15 10:28:12 11:11:06 12:47:33 8:11:06
M25-29 2,391 9:11:38 9:45:57 10:19:33 11:03:20 12:34:52 8:19:11
M30-34 4,112 9:06:31 9:48:45 10:14:40 10:55:29 12:30:16 8:13:33
M35-39 5,574 9:15:28 9:55:34 10:24:33 11:07:34 12:38:12 8:26:41
M40-44 6,426 9:26:06 10:07:26 10:37:34 11:19:50 12:47:42 8:26:15
M45-49 5,239 9:36:25 10:18:44 10:49:41 11:32:47 12:58:57 9:01:42
M50-54 3,709 9:50:23 10:38:34 11:08:59 11:51:40 13:23:57 9:02:49
M55-59 2,021 10:19:36 11:05:24 11:35:56 12:22:51 13:54:39 9:22:44
M60-64 858 10:28:22 11:19:04 12:01:15 12:47:31 14:22:38 9:29:05
M65-69 257 11:14:51 11:57:30 12:38:47 13:21:45 14:42:30 10:44:09
M70-74 60 12:32:29 12:54:58 13:24:43 14:08:18 15:44:10 12:32:29
M75-79 10 15:24:34 15:24:34 15:24:34 15:33:06 16:24:09 15:24:34
MPC 18 10:57:17 10:57:17 10:57:17 12:30:43 13:44:16 10:57:17

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 11,065 9:27:12 10:33:52 11:15:51 12:05:56 13:47:44 8:36:13
FPRO 341 8:41:41 8:52:31 9:03:15 9:14:49 9:44:56 8:36:13
F18-24 231 10:15:21 10:54:09 11:13:41 11:46:11 13:18:04 10:07:53
F25-29 967 10:05:45 10:38:45 11:07:49 11:46:28 13:15:19 9:23:45
F30-34 1,641 10:04:18 10:42:24 11:11:09 11:49:17 13:27:49 9:30:05
F35-39 1,959 10:05:52 10:49:31 11:19:37 12:02:32 13:34:39 9:30:26
F40-44 2,124 10:16:02 10:57:22 11:28:48 12:13:48 13:46:30 9:33:48
F45-49 1,755 10:27:32 11:17:12 11:48:15 12:34:39 14:04:38 9:56:34
F50-54 1,247 10:54:09 11:43:23 12:08:00 12:57:43 14:33:23 10:04:45
F55-59 536 11:25:52 12:11:25 12:41:21 13:22:10 14:39:00 10:55:11
F60-64 194 12:08:11 12:48:05 13:19:40 13:45:20 15:08:35 11:52:39
F65-69 56 13:11:42 13:52:55 14:17:16 14:46:46 15:35:38 13:11:42
F70-74 6 15:02:30 15:02:30 15:02:30 15:29:52 15:53:38 15:02:30

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.