Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN Des Moines · 1 editions (2022) · 867 finishers

Editions: 2022

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 659 8:35:50 9:54:55 10:36:52 11:40:56 13:41:02 7:56:48
MPRO 12 7:56:48 7:56:48 7:59:27 8:10:07 8:30:39 7:56:48
M18-24 23 9:31:21 10:33:35 10:46:27 11:11:42 13:24:50 9:31:21
M25-29 48 9:35:31 10:00:31 10:18:52 11:20:10 12:29:53 9:35:31
M30-34 77 9:22:27 9:45:29 10:21:55 11:12:48 13:15:22 9:22:27
M35-39 97 8:51:30 9:36:40 10:05:32 10:40:40 13:40:13 8:51:30
M40-44 115 9:44:28 10:05:17 10:37:26 11:36:51 13:38:55 9:40:02
M45-49 94 9:34:21 10:14:16 11:16:15 12:00:33 13:26:07 9:34:21
M50-54 90 10:13:43 11:00:58 11:40:56 12:08:02 13:56:18 10:13:43
M55-59 59 10:22:51 10:46:12 11:27:51 12:06:35 13:57:16 10:22:51
M60-64 34 11:15:11 11:54:34 12:05:39 12:39:56 15:12:14 11:15:11
M65-69 7 11:36:35 11:36:35 11:36:35 12:40:39 13:38:29 11:36:35

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 208 9:20:07 10:15:00 10:54:11 12:03:44 14:31:33 8:51:44
FPRO 9 8:51:44 8:51:44 8:51:44 9:11:49 9:24:32 8:51:44
F25-29 15 10:18:47 10:18:47 10:31:18 10:57:06 15:29:09 10:18:47
F30-34 13 10:10:21 10:10:21 10:25:15 10:31:05 12:31:23 10:10:21
F35-39 29 9:40:57 9:59:16 10:32:30 11:16:20 13:52:01 9:40:57
F40-44 40 10:23:30 10:35:13 10:57:26 12:36:39 14:31:47 10:23:30
F45-49 28 10:53:25 11:01:13 11:11:32 11:56:43 14:07:50 10:53:25
F50-54 37 11:15:52 12:02:19 12:33:14 13:17:42 14:49:35 11:15:52
F55-59 21 11:16:19 12:35:41 12:46:33 13:50:17 15:01:21 11:16:19
F60-64 11 13:07:18 13:07:18 13:30:28 13:46:08 15:39:53 13:07:18

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.