Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 Eagleman 2018 · 1,574 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 1,067 4:11:23 4:36:16 4:51:05 5:10:49 5:57:55 3:49:04
MPRO 16 3:49:04 3:49:04 3:55:32 3:57:54 4:08:26 3:49:04
M18-24 46 4:10:45 4:34:45 4:45:29 5:01:52 5:42:07 4:10:45
M25-29 102 4:15:05 4:37:50 4:47:38 5:07:45 5:46:17 4:11:46
M30-34 145 4:19:19 4:35:02 4:41:26 4:58:59 5:47:17 4:10:12
M35-39 161 4:19:19 4:43:50 4:55:22 5:10:23 5:53:01 4:11:23
M40-44 163 4:20:40 4:36:25 4:49:14 5:15:26 5:51:47 4:18:56
M45-49 161 4:32:48 4:46:25 4:57:16 5:15:38 6:00:07 4:27:31
M50-54 138 4:36:09 4:47:03 5:04:37 5:26:05 6:13:55 4:28:59
M55-59 68 4:36:16 4:42:43 5:00:48 5:32:01 6:09:32 4:36:16
M60-64 42 5:00:22 5:09:24 5:27:36 5:51:10 6:27:49 5:00:22
M65-69 13 5:20:35 5:20:35 5:46:02 6:01:19 6:36:44 5:20:35
M70-74 9 6:30:01 6:30:01 6:30:01 6:35:23 6:56:43 6:30:01

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 507 4:31:39 4:59:36 5:14:21 5:33:07 6:18:54 4:15:31
FPRO 10 4:15:31 4:15:31 4:15:31 4:17:06 4:26:01 4:15:31
F18-24 18 5:07:01 5:07:01 5:12:02 5:40:25 6:08:14 5:07:01
F25-29 49 4:42:06 5:14:21 5:19:01 5:36:05 6:14:22 4:42:06
F30-34 80 4:50:10 4:58:24 5:07:40 5:19:21 6:12:39 4:50:10
F35-39 88 4:44:38 4:57:58 5:06:29 5:24:22 6:06:57 4:44:38
F40-44 76 4:47:17 5:08:08 5:13:29 5:22:54 6:02:00 4:47:17
F45-49 87 5:04:23 5:20:55 5:34:32 6:01:45 6:31:14 5:04:23
F50-54 58 5:23:41 5:27:52 5:30:25 5:52:27 6:33:31 5:23:41
F55-59 24 5:27:26 5:52:05 5:56:47 6:07:10 6:36:45 5:27:26
F60-64 12 5:28:57 5:28:57 5:43:48 6:04:58 6:36:43 5:28:57
F65-69 5 6:21:31 6:21:31 6:21:31 6:21:31 7:08:05 6:21:31

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.