Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN European Championship Frankfurt · 7 editions (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022) · 14,658 finishers

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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 13,015 8:51:36 9:33:09 9:54:07 10:27:01 11:42:24 7:41:42
MPRO 179 7:46:07 7:52:54 8:00:58 8:09:53 8:40:06 7:41:42
M18-24 142 9:01:46 9:14:34 9:41:21 10:08:33 11:16:29 8:54:03
M25-29 739 8:50:23 9:15:50 9:34:04 9:57:36 11:13:45 8:34:05
M30-34 1,728 9:00:14 9:22:16 9:40:04 10:05:24 11:14:11 8:40:49
M35-39 2,214 9:02:19 9:29:25 9:46:48 10:13:41 11:22:07 8:47:16
M40-44 2,619 9:14:07 9:39:27 9:57:36 10:27:33 11:37:23 8:41:18
M45-49 2,450 9:27:07 9:52:46 10:14:41 10:41:48 11:54:18 8:49:35
M50-54 1,826 9:32:31 10:04:58 10:24:12 10:53:47 12:09:53 9:00:48
M55-59 786 9:52:44 10:23:52 10:41:58 11:21:01 12:32:51 9:25:24
M60-64 259 10:28:29 10:43:19 11:12:51 11:39:24 12:48:55 10:01:09
M65-69 61 10:51:36 11:30:26 11:46:00 12:08:52 13:24:24 10:51:36
M70-74 11 11:42:45 11:42:45 11:56:58 12:09:31 13:31:07 11:42:45

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 1,643 9:11:55 10:05:17 10:27:54 11:14:10 12:31:13 8:38:44
FPRO 61 8:38:44 8:51:50 9:01:58 9:07:51 9:28:20 8:38:44
F18-24 26 10:02:59 10:23:45 10:24:04 11:18:47 11:50:42 10:02:59
F25-29 147 9:51:51 10:06:40 10:14:55 10:43:17 12:01:49 9:50:01
F30-34 260 9:55:08 10:13:24 10:27:39 10:58:32 12:15:10 9:34:59
F35-39 309 9:43:05 10:11:07 10:38:06 11:16:29 12:25:19 9:20:39
F40-44 305 10:01:38 10:31:17 10:58:15 11:29:00 12:42:16 9:44:57
F45-49 273 10:05:45 10:31:15 11:00:13 11:33:24 12:36:25 10:00:20
F50-54 179 10:21:56 10:55:09 11:13:23 11:52:40 13:07:56 10:07:42
F55-59 62 10:44:15 11:29:31 11:42:37 12:00:36 13:15:06 10:44:15
F60-64 19 11:52:49 11:52:49 11:54:46 12:43:09 13:39:01 11:52:49

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.