Age-group thresholds

Challenge Copenhagen · 3 editions (2010, 2011, 2012) · 4,045 finishers

Editions: 2010 · 2011 · 2012

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 3,560 8:50:51 9:32:51 9:52:23 10:19:39 11:10:20 8:07:39
MPRO 47 8:07:39 8:11:50 8:12:52 8:20:19 8:38:19 8:07:39
M18-24 177 9:00:05 9:33:36 9:54:54 10:23:09 11:16:11 8:57:41
M25-29 523 8:58:22 9:32:26 9:46:02 10:07:35 10:54:45 8:41:09
M30-34 650 9:01:55 9:27:07 9:45:30 10:06:23 10:49:49 8:51:22
M35-39 761 9:07:24 9:38:04 9:53:42 10:16:34 11:01:27 8:41:39
M40-44 657 9:09:28 9:45:28 10:01:01 10:26:35 11:14:16 8:39:37
M45-49 473 9:31:10 10:04:19 10:30:37 10:51:20 11:34:25 9:07:29
M50-54 206 9:41:17 10:09:46 10:30:19 10:58:30 11:51:15 9:38:14
M55-59 55 10:11:54 10:24:49 10:45:20 11:02:58 12:28:27 10:11:54
M60-64 8 11:35:54 11:35:54 11:35:54 11:38:42 12:05:50 11:35:54

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 485 9:15:25 10:15:13 10:43:53 11:09:38 12:07:04 8:52:42
FPRO 24 8:52:42 8:54:36 9:12:27 9:15:25 9:36:59 8:52:42
F18-24 26 10:33:43 10:53:43 10:57:24 11:21:27 12:10:00 10:33:43
F25-29 88 9:50:46 10:48:34 10:56:38 11:20:42 12:02:46 9:50:46
F30-34 125 10:03:50 10:31:54 10:51:08 11:13:28 12:03:37 10:00:56
F35-39 90 10:13:15 10:43:52 10:50:43 11:18:52 12:17:01 10:13:15
F40-44 47 10:12:43 10:43:53 10:59:09 11:22:08 12:18:56 10:12:43
F45-49 48 10:28:57 10:33:27 11:09:38 11:35:00 12:21:31 10:28:57
F50-54 26 10:35:27 10:43:49 10:44:45 11:09:59 12:27:20 10:35:27
F55-59 8 10:36:04 10:36:04 10:36:04 10:50:12 12:24:32 10:36:04

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.