Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN Switzerland Thun · 20 editions (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) · 30,504 finishers

Editions: 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 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 26,697 9:02:15 9:39:10 10:00:59 10:34:37 11:51:09 7:39:41
MPRO 333 7:49:35 8:09:18 8:17:13 8:30:01 8:53:57 7:39:41
M18-24 650 9:06:08 9:31:11 9:52:07 10:25:15 11:45:03 8:38:59
M25-29 2,374 9:03:29 9:29:54 9:47:59 10:20:18 11:32:53 8:39:55
M30-34 4,695 9:09:31 9:32:07 9:50:18 10:20:30 11:31:20 8:28:57
M35-39 5,358 9:13:39 9:38:11 9:55:04 10:25:24 11:37:34 8:45:29
M40-44 5,446 9:26:48 9:50:19 10:10:05 10:39:33 11:51:56 8:15:08
M45-49 3,923 9:34:12 9:59:56 10:23:10 10:53:41 12:08:30 8:54:42
M50-54 2,326 9:51:14 10:20:28 10:40:09 11:12:41 12:33:24 9:19:24
M55-59 1,009 10:14:51 10:41:05 11:00:27 11:35:41 12:56:00 9:38:39
M60-64 374 10:28:20 10:58:25 11:21:28 11:54:57 13:22:44 10:15:15
M65-69 91 10:41:20 11:31:14 11:56:17 12:17:47 13:47:39 10:41:20
M70-74 28 12:30:42 13:05:06 13:10:30 13:46:31 14:35:50 12:30:42
M 88 9:08:24 9:38:41 9:43:14 10:17:38 11:46:23 9:08:24

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 3,807 9:29:32 10:11:12 10:42:55 11:18:02 12:37:18 8:32:36
FPRO 159 8:53:49 9:10:25 9:20:16 9:28:12 9:45:11 8:32:36
F18-24 101 10:22:16 10:50:10 11:00:19 11:28:08 12:37:02 9:59:52
F25-29 479 9:51:43 10:16:23 10:32:21 10:59:16 12:17:30 9:32:57
F30-34 828 9:48:33 10:17:27 10:40:51 11:09:38 12:25:18 9:30:08
F35-39 696 10:04:15 10:31:57 10:54:35 11:20:42 12:27:52 9:36:25
F40-44 628 10:16:57 10:47:43 11:05:33 11:35:21 12:51:57 10:06:00
F45-49 465 10:31:23 10:54:02 11:19:09 11:47:32 12:55:28 10:00:03
F50-54 292 10:45:56 11:20:23 11:37:56 12:10:53 13:30:43 10:25:19
F55-59 115 11:29:37 11:59:17 12:15:44 12:36:20 13:40:29 11:22:21
F60-64 37 12:11:45 12:29:55 12:57:44 13:28:39 14:19:21 12:11:45
F65-69 6 14:36:38 14:36:38 14:36:38 14:42:34 15:22:04 14:36:38

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.