Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 Muncie · 15 editions (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026) · 18,439 finishers

Editions: 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025 · 2026

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 12,580 2:33:58 3:07:06 4:23:15 4:58:59 5:50:37 2:00:24
MPRO 78 2:00:24 2:03:24 2:06:35 2:13:20 3:56:40 2:00:24
M18-24 805 2:33:24 3:20:23 4:33:44 4:56:41 5:48:29 2:20:36
M25-29 1,231 2:29:18 3:02:10 4:20:07 4:49:53 5:45:03 2:10:59
M30-34 1,748 2:39:53 3:07:41 4:19:35 4:51:50 5:43:35 2:13:10
M35-39 2,128 2:33:29 3:02:27 3:41:56 4:54:16 5:44:18 2:14:25
M40-44 2,048 2:32:26 3:00:15 4:02:41 4:54:10 5:44:19 2:14:16
M45-49 1,835 2:36:03 3:10:45 4:34:39 5:02:44 5:54:41 2:20:36
M50-54 1,304 2:45:56 3:11:31 4:48:13 5:10:14 5:58:45 2:20:43
M55-59 796 2:59:23 4:34:25 5:02:23 5:28:49 6:12:03 2:42:49
M60-64 376 2:52:25 5:00:53 5:15:56 5:36:17 6:27:15 2:40:15
M65-69 158 3:27:15 5:19:21 5:31:48 5:47:29 6:35:02 3:24:22
M70-74 60 3:37:09 3:58:25 5:32:07 5:58:27 6:57:52 3:37:09
M75-79 12 6:18:02 6:18:02 7:05:28 7:09:13 7:26:28 6:18:02

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 5,859 2:46:48 3:25:11 4:54:09 5:26:52 6:18:06 2:10:53
FPRO 46 2:10:53 2:15:33 2:19:37 2:26:29 4:26:25 2:10:53
F18-24 262 2:42:16 4:48:54 5:10:14 5:28:08 6:16:10 2:33:04
F25-29 662 2:41:49 3:03:58 4:11:27 5:12:40 6:06:35 2:31:12
F30-34 889 2:38:50 3:17:15 4:39:40 5:13:21 6:12:31 2:22:32
F35-39 1,032 2:45:32 3:25:07 4:54:30 5:24:02 6:14:17 2:33:21
F40-44 1,008 2:50:46 3:22:11 4:51:44 5:21:46 6:16:15 2:29:32
F45-49 840 2:55:40 3:29:16 5:06:10 5:35:32 6:25:20 2:43:40
F50-54 564 3:06:01 3:52:48 5:15:26 5:39:15 6:26:03 2:48:19
F55-59 338 3:14:54 5:16:42 5:32:19 5:57:21 6:35:36 2:56:19
F60-64 160 3:26:04 5:14:18 5:43:59 6:03:56 6:54:21 3:15:46
F65-69 44 4:21:41 5:56:23 6:07:27 6:40:30 7:07:12 4:21:41
F70-74 9 6:30:38 6:30:38 6:30:38 7:09:04 8:03:49 6:30:38

Source: Seffrin A., Nikolaidis P.T., Andrade M.S., Villiger E., Rosemann T., Weiss K., Ferreira D., Knechtle B. (2026). A dataset of 3.6 million IRONMAN triathlon records with transition times (2002-2026), v4.0.0. Zenodo. CC BY 4.0. doi:10.5281/zenodo.23421027.