Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN Malaysia 2017 · 885 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 774 9:16:46 10:06:34 10:38:40 11:44:38 13:57:21 8:32:54
MPRO 14 8:32:54 8:32:54 8:36:44 8:40:45 9:13:33 8:32:54
M18-24 17 10:49:57 10:49:57 11:18:17 11:49:37 14:45:43 10:49:57
M25-29 54 9:26:46 10:25:47 10:57:05 11:35:20 13:06:01 9:26:46
M30-34 102 9:43:06 10:14:25 10:37:39 11:51:06 14:10:48 9:35:42
M35-39 167 9:51:23 10:04:56 10:21:47 10:58:14 13:53:28 9:49:28
M40-44 169 9:45:20 10:15:30 10:55:03 12:08:44 14:27:01 9:41:08
M45-49 130 9:52:56 10:15:35 11:05:26 12:00:45 14:17:38 9:48:53
M50-54 74 10:14:04 10:34:39 10:48:41 11:39:19 13:53:05 10:14:04
M55-59 34 10:44:51 10:49:03 11:16:05 11:44:38 13:24:51 10:44:51
M60-64 8 11:47:12 11:47:12 11:47:12 12:13:11 13:00:20 11:47:12

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 111 9:27:23 10:29:44 11:08:29 11:44:35 13:44:15 9:19:01
FPRO 7 9:19:01 9:19:01 9:19:01 9:27:23 9:38:36 9:19:01
F18-24 5 11:11:35 11:11:35 11:11:35 11:11:35 14:02:08 11:11:35
F25-29 11 11:08:29 11:08:29 11:15:58 12:02:10 13:30:59 11:08:29
F30-34 16 10:39:00 10:39:00 11:13:41 11:44:35 15:08:44 10:39:00
F35-39 25 10:47:52 10:55:55 11:11:51 11:22:24 13:42:48 10:47:52
F40-44 21 11:03:24 11:47:40 11:58:57 12:14:22 14:06:21 11:03:24
F45-49 15 11:36:17 11:36:17 12:17:46 13:03:38 15:11:39 11:36:17
F50-54 6 11:49:37 11:49:37 11:49:37 12:25:04 13:06:49 11:49:37

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.