Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN Brazil 2006 · 1,073 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 936 8:52:28 9:47:07 10:03:51 10:33:53 11:44:02 8:15:18
MPRO 24 8:15:18 8:15:47 8:25:28 8:36:53 8:56:52 8:15:18
M18-24 37 9:33:32 9:52:28 9:58:41 10:05:06 11:38:58 9:33:32
M25-29 133 9:29:53 9:47:07 9:58:10 10:34:52 11:31:57 9:18:46
M30-34 213 9:18:21 9:48:23 10:04:25 10:26:57 11:31:21 9:13:08
M35-39 226 9:31:57 9:49:39 10:10:44 10:35:59 11:38:18 9:15:59
M40-44 158 9:33:41 9:58:23 10:19:45 10:50:59 11:58:46 9:26:22
M45-49 89 9:58:08 10:30:47 10:43:53 11:09:06 12:27:21 9:58:08
M50-54 26 10:35:49 10:43:25 11:25:00 11:45:02 13:19:44 10:35:49
M55-59 19 11:23:58 11:23:58 11:24:17 11:34:31 12:25:05 11:23:58
M60-64 9 11:45:44 11:45:44 11:45:44 11:46:51 13:59:10 11:45:44

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 137 9:29:35 10:09:36 10:27:20 11:14:15 12:26:12 9:20:46
FPRO 13 9:20:46 9:20:46 9:29:35 9:34:18 10:15:01 9:20:46
F25-29 22 10:48:59 10:49:43 10:54:28 11:25:07 12:18:56 10:48:59
F30-34 24 10:15:32 10:27:20 10:41:29 11:07:01 12:20:16 10:15:32
F35-39 28 10:09:36 10:42:34 10:54:02 11:37:51 12:19:19 10:09:36
F40-44 25 10:53:02 11:02:12 11:18:03 11:30:13 12:35:50 10:53:02
F45-49 14 11:44:28 11:44:28 11:49:54 12:35:41 13:54:54 11:44:28

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.