Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 Eagleman 2009 · 1,484 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 1,052 4:08:46 4:27:13 4:39:08 4:54:51 5:31:21 3:51:11
MPRO 13 3:51:11 3:51:11 3:51:27 3:56:50 4:03:01 3:51:11
M18-24 28 4:09:35 4:28:36 4:41:32 4:46:30 5:08:12 4:09:35
M25-29 76 4:12:04 4:22:40 4:31:31 4:52:15 5:27:39 4:12:04
M30-34 130 4:08:46 4:20:52 4:27:20 4:42:32 5:16:44 4:06:31
M35-39 207 4:17:05 4:28:22 4:34:15 4:50:40 5:27:26 4:12:00
M40-44 236 4:19:34 4:32:04 4:43:14 4:55:49 5:27:03 4:10:52
M45-49 181 4:22:56 4:34:40 4:43:38 5:00:14 5:31:21 4:18:07
M50-54 87 4:21:41 4:46:54 4:55:56 5:16:20 5:54:49 4:21:41
M55-59 43 4:44:37 4:56:39 5:01:53 5:05:38 5:58:06 4:44:37
M60-64 30 4:59:09 5:02:01 5:06:49 5:16:36 5:59:02 4:59:09
M65-69 13 5:26:41 5:26:41 5:55:50 6:01:18 6:17:07 5:26:41
M70-74 5 5:25:53 5:25:53 5:25:53 5:25:53 6:45:01 5:25:53

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 432 4:28:18 4:46:08 4:57:27 5:17:13 5:55:15 4:13:27
FPRO 13 4:13:27 4:13:27 4:17:00 4:24:49 4:29:51 4:13:27
F18-24 13 4:41:20 4:41:20 5:19:09 5:25:33 6:07:39 4:41:20
F25-29 46 4:43:09 4:44:42 4:50:22 5:06:46 5:39:18 4:43:09
F30-34 76 4:39:58 4:46:54 5:00:00 5:19:23 5:47:01 4:39:58
F35-39 70 4:45:29 4:51:49 5:02:42 5:16:55 5:55:27 4:45:29
F40-44 87 4:35:13 4:51:01 4:59:09 5:21:52 5:56:52 4:35:13
F45-49 65 4:53:09 5:07:31 5:15:46 5:27:01 5:57:40 4:53:09
F50-54 37 4:49:59 5:15:26 5:16:50 5:33:41 6:02:49 4:49:59
F55-59 13 5:20:39 5:20:39 5:32:10 5:32:51 6:19:05 5:20:39
F60-64 8 5:35:25 5:35:25 5:35:25 5:55:10 6:37:16 5:35:25

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.