Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 Higashimikawa Japan · 1 editions (2023) · 637 finishers

Editions: 2023

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 567 4:23:22 4:54:58 5:08:39 5:27:19 6:06:43 4:12:17
M18-24 13 4:17:03 4:17:03 4:39:46 4:54:30 5:22:41 4:17:03
M25-29 19 4:12:17 4:12:17 4:19:05 4:32:16 5:16:50 4:12:17
M30-34 21 4:40:23 4:47:31 4:58:56 5:19:06 5:51:54 4:40:23
M35-39 54 4:17:39 4:32:05 4:56:10 5:07:12 5:44:15 4:17:39
M40-44 81 4:22:12 4:49:42 5:00:54 5:19:09 5:59:52 4:22:12
M45-49 92 4:48:54 5:11:13 5:17:52 5:27:50 6:05:09 4:48:54
M50-54 116 4:45:26 5:05:14 5:20:15 5:37:43 6:05:20 4:35:47
M55-59 86 4:54:33 5:16:56 5:21:47 5:48:08 6:21:06 4:54:33
M60-64 59 5:03:17 5:10:16 5:35:42 5:48:47 6:32:07 5:03:17
M65-69 17 5:28:21 5:28:21 5:28:29 5:48:58 6:41:47 5:28:21
M70-74 7 5:34:06 5:34:06 5:34:06 6:41:43 7:25:24 5:34:06

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 70 4:52:04 5:03:14 5:17:08 5:41:19 6:17:52 4:52:04
F25-29 6 4:52:04 4:52:04 4:52:04 4:54:13 5:03:14 4:52:04
F30-34 8 5:28:20 5:28:20 5:28:20 5:42:35 6:02:40 5:28:20
F35-39 12 4:52:56 4:52:56 5:04:12 5:06:07 5:45:10 4:52:56
F40-44 8 5:34:06 5:34:06 5:34:06 5:37:48 6:19:02 5:34:06
F45-49 11 5:25:39 5:25:39 5:39:55 5:58:03 6:50:17 5:25:39
F50-54 11 5:17:08 5:17:08 5:44:35 5:58:04 6:12:39 5:17:08
F55-59 7 5:42:14 5:42:14 5:42:14 5:51:10 7:26:31 5:42:14
F60-64 7 5:45:50 5:45:50 5:45:50 6:03:23 6:20:55 5:45:50

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.