Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN Wisconsin 2021 · 3,496 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 2,491 9:53:01 10:47:47 11:26:53 12:13:02 13:34:59 9:20:20
M18-24 92 10:20:02 10:53:51 11:32:09 11:48:11 12:52:44 10:20:02
M25-29 250 9:44:33 10:18:56 10:45:43 11:28:27 12:57:57 9:22:43
M30-34 328 9:32:14 10:34:05 11:12:59 12:00:30 13:18:33 9:23:35
M35-39 306 9:50:13 10:33:28 11:13:33 11:53:14 13:07:57 9:49:06
M40-44 412 9:53:01 10:24:24 11:08:20 11:57:14 13:09:01 9:32:33
M45-49 351 10:06:16 11:10:00 11:41:02 12:33:24 13:54:41 9:20:20
M50-54 398 10:45:20 11:29:49 12:09:31 12:40:31 13:48:29 10:31:59
M55-59 202 10:42:24 11:10:01 11:50:19 12:43:10 14:02:17 10:26:35
M60-64 108 10:53:47 12:04:05 12:09:03 12:52:40 13:59:52 10:53:47
M65-69 28 11:47:16 11:47:16 12:48:13 12:51:07 14:06:20 11:47:16
M70-74 14 14:06:00 14:06:00 14:06:00 14:27:50 15:00:11 14:06:00

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 1,005 10:49:47 11:50:17 12:07:14 12:42:42 14:21:17 10:16:54
F18-24 26 11:48:13 11:48:13 11:54:18 12:44:41 14:20:52 11:48:13
F25-29 80 10:42:50 11:06:53 11:58:46 12:12:24 13:28:21 10:42:50
F30-34 150 10:16:54 10:55:06 11:53:17 12:24:31 13:47:35 10:16:54
F35-39 144 10:46:56 11:25:24 12:04:30 12:26:07 13:36:44 10:46:56
F40-44 206 11:28:45 11:59:30 12:33:11 13:12:58 14:26:11 10:49:47
F45-49 156 10:58:24 11:34:00 11:51:18 12:28:53 14:20:14 10:58:24
F50-54 138 11:50:17 12:34:03 12:52:10 13:45:55 14:53:31 11:50:17
F55-59 59 11:58:28 12:14:21 12:42:54 13:09:56 14:46:50 11:58:28
F60-64 34 12:00:03 12:00:03 12:00:32 13:51:18 15:30:42 12:00:03
F65-69 10 14:13:08 14:13:08 14:13:08 14:13:08 15:46:16 14:13:08

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.