Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN Barcelona · 9 editions (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023) · 20,776 finishers

Editions: 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023

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 18,267 8:30:21 9:15:39 9:41:25 10:13:29 11:26:42 7:45:05
MPRO 239 7:49:13 8:02:20 8:06:45 8:16:10 8:42:45 7:45:05
M18-24 236 8:16:10 8:55:45 9:20:19 9:52:20 11:07:27 8:09:14
M25-29 1,070 8:41:10 9:08:02 9:29:16 10:00:48 11:18:54 8:02:21
M30-34 2,359 8:30:21 9:04:40 9:26:31 9:56:24 11:05:54 7:46:44
M35-39 3,210 8:42:41 9:10:51 9:32:46 9:58:33 11:06:19 7:57:50
M40-44 3,934 8:46:13 9:23:44 9:45:57 10:13:58 11:18:33 7:58:55
M45-49 3,551 9:00:03 9:33:31 9:53:35 10:24:43 11:35:11 7:59:08
M50-54 2,350 9:10:43 9:48:37 10:13:09 10:43:06 11:51:52 8:30:49
M55-59 947 9:24:58 10:02:56 10:36:27 11:07:36 12:19:00 9:07:29
M60-64 281 9:58:39 10:39:45 10:57:58 11:31:59 12:49:59 9:44:37
M65-69 72 10:15:08 10:44:33 11:26:29 11:58:18 13:08:20 10:15:08
M70-74 17 11:17:45 11:17:45 11:17:45 12:21:09 14:03:49 11:17:45

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 2,509 9:03:32 9:47:29 10:18:40 11:04:25 12:23:45 8:20:25
FPRO 72 8:34:10 8:46:44 8:51:21 8:58:10 9:22:34 8:34:10
F18-24 37 8:59:07 8:59:07 9:50:58 10:59:25 12:34:32 8:59:07
F25-29 215 9:33:56 9:54:43 10:16:21 10:53:32 12:09:19 9:22:14
F30-34 424 9:09:24 9:40:40 10:10:00 10:46:46 12:06:31 8:45:59
F35-39 399 9:34:55 9:55:29 10:29:22 11:01:04 12:18:39 9:30:23
F40-44 469 9:44:40 10:10:08 10:30:57 11:05:59 12:17:53 9:26:56
F45-49 438 9:18:25 10:10:53 10:54:23 11:30:11 12:40:07 8:20:25
F50-54 303 9:57:23 10:45:55 11:18:56 11:50:10 13:04:16 9:43:47
F55-59 106 9:52:17 10:13:23 11:15:42 11:47:05 13:13:51 9:52:17
F60-64 34 11:40:58 11:42:10 11:43:21 12:20:01 13:39:07 11:40:58
F65-69 12 12:26:08 12:26:08 12:29:00 12:29:00 13:38:35 12:26:08

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.