Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 Eagleman 2006 · 1,403 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 1,020 4:11:44 4:34:56 4:47:54 5:04:51 5:40:24 3:54:15
MPRO 12 3:54:15 3:54:15 3:55:51 4:02:36 4:04:47 3:54:15
M18-24 28 4:35:49 4:56:57 4:59:28 5:02:14 5:17:17 4:35:49
M25-29 87 4:10:36 4:21:09 4:30:54 4:39:51 5:27:06 4:10:36
M30-34 151 4:24:55 4:34:56 4:42:55 4:58:24 5:26:42 4:03:39
M35-39 247 4:28:18 4:38:05 4:44:56 4:58:43 5:37:37 4:23:41
M40-44 209 4:28:02 4:44:22 4:54:25 5:10:31 5:45:41 4:20:52
M45-49 132 4:30:22 4:44:31 4:54:27 5:11:04 5:40:03 4:19:33
M50-54 77 4:33:49 4:55:56 5:09:16 5:22:33 5:54:10 4:33:49
M55-59 45 5:01:40 5:04:51 5:08:55 5:35:33 6:07:34 5:01:40
M60-64 17 5:03:20 5:03:20 5:38:36 5:50:18 6:28:30 5:03:20
M65-69 10 5:44:30 5:44:30 5:44:30 6:03:14 6:31:02 5:44:30

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 383 4:31:50 4:55:56 5:07:43 5:19:55 5:53:43 4:18:12
FPRO 13 4:18:12 4:18:12 4:28:48 4:29:30 4:39:51 4:18:12
F18-24 17 4:46:22 4:46:22 5:14:36 5:17:17 5:53:43 4:46:22
F25-29 53 4:39:59 5:01:49 5:10:19 5:19:39 6:01:25 4:39:59
F30-34 80 4:35:43 4:55:48 5:05:13 5:14:06 5:57:54 4:35:43
F35-39 67 4:55:36 5:07:43 5:14:03 5:27:03 6:01:31 4:55:36
F40-44 77 4:45:37 5:00:02 5:06:48 5:17:09 5:41:07 4:45:37
F45-49 41 5:13:34 5:26:51 5:29:57 5:37:05 6:08:07 5:13:34
F50-54 22 5:15:56 5:26:29 5:29:32 5:36:42 6:04:00 5:15:56
F55-59 6 5:47:44 5:47:44 5:47:44 6:13:22 6:26:42 5:47:44
F60-64 5 5:49:38 5:49:38 5:49:38 5:49:38 6:38:01 5:49:38

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.