Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 Desaru Coast · 4 editions (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) · 2,195 finishers

Editions: 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 1,893 4:40:56 5:06:53 5:23:57 5:47:30 6:40:47 4:13:02
M18-24 36 4:18:23 4:40:56 5:10:13 5:35:06 6:35:29 4:18:23
M25-29 102 4:26:28 4:55:45 5:08:31 5:32:59 6:19:44 4:13:02
M30-34 193 4:35:39 4:57:07 5:08:10 5:28:13 6:24:46 4:29:12
M35-39 346 4:36:41 4:54:11 5:12:19 5:39:11 6:28:04 4:26:28
M40-44 413 4:44:33 5:10:06 5:28:04 5:44:41 6:34:37 4:24:27
M45-49 367 4:51:17 5:21:14 5:34:41 5:58:39 6:50:14 4:35:40
M50-54 257 4:51:22 5:19:00 5:37:10 6:02:45 6:57:20 4:27:23
M55-59 112 5:01:12 5:20:13 5:39:46 6:07:12 7:01:40 4:58:42
M60-64 48 5:31:42 5:38:35 5:43:14 6:04:02 6:57:05 5:31:42
M65-69 12 6:34:42 6:34:42 6:56:02 7:00:53 7:15:25 6:34:42
M70-74 6 6:58:40 6:58:40 6:58:40 7:17:15 7:39:40 6:58:40

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 302 4:58:43 5:26:34 5:37:54 6:02:08 6:43:09 4:49:53
F18-24 5 5:03:10 5:03:10 5:03:10 5:03:10 7:09:41 5:03:10
F25-29 19 5:40:54 5:40:54 5:49:59 6:01:24 6:42:05 5:40:54
F30-34 41 4:58:43 5:28:02 5:31:01 5:42:24 6:38:12 4:58:43
F35-39 56 4:49:53 4:55:26 5:19:29 5:42:44 6:22:08 4:49:53
F40-44 65 4:58:59 5:31:11 5:52:58 6:08:31 6:46:19 4:58:59
F45-49 61 5:22:48 5:37:54 5:49:46 6:13:25 6:52:45 5:22:48
F50-54 34 5:17:19 5:18:21 5:49:38 6:13:38 6:44:53 5:17:19
F55-59 16 5:53:51 5:53:51 6:16:38 6:37:24 7:25:36 5:53:51

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.