Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN Lake Placid · 22 editions (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) · 44,879 finishers

Editions: 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025

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 33,802 9:30:36 10:20:18 10:50:13 11:31:20 12:58:17 7:50:08
MPRO 343 7:57:13 8:13:25 8:24:12 8:42:50 9:15:27 7:50:08
M18-24 950 9:39:20 10:23:13 10:49:36 11:23:44 12:51:05 9:15:04
M25-29 2,793 9:35:50 10:07:03 10:30:33 11:07:33 12:32:59 8:25:01
M30-34 4,792 9:38:44 10:09:28 10:33:13 11:10:12 12:27:56 8:51:38
M35-39 5,984 9:42:42 10:17:38 10:41:04 11:17:16 12:37:55 8:49:13
M40-44 6,777 9:51:49 10:27:06 10:53:43 11:31:38 12:50:42 8:56:31
M45-49 5,305 9:59:18 10:43:53 11:11:48 11:48:38 13:11:46 8:57:12
M50-54 3,758 10:24:44 11:00:29 11:33:23 12:11:23 13:36:32 9:41:30
M55-59 1,954 10:36:36 11:24:59 11:57:28 12:38:35 14:07:36 10:00:21
M60-64 809 11:03:45 11:38:51 12:08:20 13:00:02 14:28:21 9:56:44
M65-69 243 11:41:13 12:17:56 13:06:18 13:48:29 15:06:02 10:58:35
M70-74 83 12:34:50 13:24:40 13:34:59 14:08:26 15:34:46 12:34:50
M75-79 10 14:06:53 14:06:53 14:06:53 14:51:44 16:12:17 14:06:53

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 11,077 10:01:47 11:03:45 11:34:15 12:15:37 13:48:44 8:43:29
FPRO 253 8:53:07 9:09:42 9:22:02 9:41:01 10:09:51 8:43:29
F18-24 272 10:31:03 11:08:11 11:26:18 12:01:20 13:42:18 10:05:36
F25-29 1,151 10:32:05 11:02:51 11:25:39 11:58:20 13:18:27 9:29:43
F30-34 1,882 10:26:32 11:04:30 11:25:37 12:00:23 13:29:15 9:31:50
F35-39 1,956 10:32:49 11:07:37 11:34:15 12:08:12 13:36:54 10:02:50
F40-44 2,194 10:37:01 11:24:00 11:45:48 12:23:11 13:48:20 9:46:00
F45-49 1,608 10:58:20 11:32:53 12:02:41 12:46:05 14:10:05 10:22:36
F50-54 1,068 11:16:22 11:53:19 12:22:43 13:08:31 14:35:58 10:24:28
F55-59 484 11:38:03 12:25:24 12:44:46 13:24:35 14:46:03 11:15:28
F60-64 166 11:56:29 12:26:30 12:55:44 13:35:03 15:13:51 11:50:32
F65-69 37 12:41:36 13:22:01 13:41:39 14:21:49 15:51:24 12:41:36
F70-74 5 15:06:12 15:06:12 15:06:12 15:06:12 15:35:26 15:06:12

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.