Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 Ecuador · 10 editions (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) · 8,432 finishers

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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 7,107 4:18:05 4:47:39 5:04:12 5:26:30 6:04:46 3:48:04
MPRO 89 3:48:04 3:51:34 3:53:09 3:58:11 4:07:47 3:48:04
M18-24 260 4:22:43 4:39:53 4:46:55 5:07:09 5:48:55 4:18:47
M25-29 776 4:24:59 4:42:55 4:57:52 5:21:36 6:00:26 4:05:50
M30-34 1,385 4:33:08 4:50:36 5:04:32 5:27:27 6:04:03 4:21:18
M35-39 1,691 4:33:14 4:49:01 5:02:09 5:25:49 6:03:56 4:16:16
M40-44 1,378 4:38:14 4:56:00 5:10:38 5:26:50 6:05:37 4:13:02
M45-49 740 4:39:04 4:58:47 5:16:39 5:34:12 6:08:10 4:28:22
M50-54 456 4:55:45 5:10:44 5:22:17 5:38:01 6:11:00 4:36:46
M55-59 198 4:53:50 5:10:14 5:31:05 5:45:36 6:24:38 4:46:42
M60-64 96 5:13:29 5:36:20 5:50:45 5:59:05 6:37:46 5:13:29
M65-69 31 5:44:31 5:48:30 6:08:49 6:27:41 7:06:02 5:44:31
M70-74 5 7:12:12 7:12:12 7:12:12 7:12:12 7:44:22 7:12:12

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 1,325 4:32:52 5:02:08 5:19:45 5:41:41 6:23:52 4:14:38
FPRO 43 4:14:38 4:20:41 4:24:04 4:27:57 4:42:33 4:14:38
F18-24 51 4:50:39 5:00:05 5:16:43 5:38:36 6:16:14 4:50:39
F25-29 202 4:50:47 5:07:07 5:17:00 5:40:32 6:06:27 4:40:48
F30-34 320 4:46:24 5:02:20 5:19:55 5:40:21 6:22:22 4:39:25
F35-39 296 4:58:46 5:15:59 5:28:51 5:50:45 6:32:23 4:52:08
F40-44 213 5:05:57 5:24:35 5:33:10 5:59:05 6:36:41 5:02:14
F45-49 128 5:18:18 5:28:49 5:37:46 5:55:19 6:34:54 5:14:59
F50-54 51 5:07:09 5:13:45 5:26:24 5:48:45 6:34:54 5:07:09
F55-59 18 5:30:54 5:30:54 5:37:27 5:53:48 6:54:44 5:30:54

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.