Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN New Zealand 2012 · 1,415 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 1,084 4:15:25 4:29:17 4:39:12 4:51:57 5:25:52 3:55:03
MPRO 21 3:55:03 3:55:51 3:56:38 3:58:57 4:15:25 3:55:03
M18-24 16 4:21:16 4:21:16 4:25:12 4:49:34 5:16:49 4:21:16
M25-29 69 4:17:20 4:26:16 4:32:24 4:39:47 5:00:16 4:17:20
M30-34 150 4:16:10 4:23:01 4:29:00 4:41:45 5:05:37 4:15:37
M35-39 169 4:24:27 4:34:50 4:41:30 4:51:04 5:17:29 4:19:06
M40-44 199 4:24:09 4:34:03 4:39:57 4:51:00 5:18:39 4:23:59
M45-49 170 4:28:38 4:38:01 4:44:14 4:57:24 5:39:22 4:21:45
M50-54 156 4:27:16 4:42:06 4:53:12 5:09:05 5:42:48 4:23:00
M55-59 65 4:31:36 4:57:41 5:01:46 5:12:32 5:54:12 4:31:36
M60-64 48 4:58:46 5:25:55 5:29:15 5:42:41 6:25:49 4:58:46
M65-69 14 5:17:38 5:17:38 5:49:03 6:06:26 6:23:54 5:17:38
M70-74 5 7:43:38 7:43:38 7:43:38 7:43:38 8:06:14 7:43:38

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 331 4:31:46 4:51:59 5:12:11 5:30:12 6:08:18 4:22:46
FPRO 8 4:22:46 4:22:46 4:22:46 4:30:37 4:31:46 4:22:46
F25-29 41 4:50:11 5:00:18 5:09:13 5:27:19 5:48:26 4:50:11
F30-34 57 4:39:47 4:50:27 5:09:24 5:24:02 5:51:40 4:39:47
F35-39 48 4:32:51 4:51:08 5:00:10 5:15:12 5:52:35 4:32:51
F40-44 57 4:57:06 5:07:51 5:23:36 5:30:13 6:00:26 4:57:06
F45-49 48 4:43:26 5:30:20 5:36:40 5:49:42 6:24:26 4:43:26
F50-54 45 5:15:45 5:30:27 5:44:36 6:05:17 6:42:32 5:15:45
F55-59 10 5:20:11 5:20:11 5:20:11 5:45:54 6:38:41 5:20:11
F60-64 10 6:16:31 6:16:31 6:16:31 6:23:31 6:36:11 6:16:31

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.