Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 Musselman · 5 editions (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) · 6,249 finishers

Editions: 2021 · 2022 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025

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 3,947 4:22:23 4:43:02 4:56:26 5:17:08 5:57:54 3:57:03
M18-24 228 4:17:42 4:40:42 4:51:42 5:16:02 5:57:58 3:57:03
M25-29 462 4:16:18 4:33:29 4:52:05 5:14:33 5:57:27 4:03:35
M30-34 532 4:17:02 4:29:25 4:44:35 5:08:58 5:49:56 4:03:12
M35-39 527 4:19:49 4:33:24 4:45:46 5:08:41 5:53:30 4:02:23
M40-44 565 4:24:20 4:43:27 4:50:23 5:13:57 5:50:45 4:03:17
M45-49 474 4:31:09 4:51:29 5:04:02 5:18:21 5:56:02 4:16:28
M50-54 469 4:36:32 4:52:28 5:03:15 5:20:13 5:58:31 4:27:03
M55-59 374 4:50:54 4:59:11 5:14:13 5:29:39 6:05:54 4:32:25
M60-64 190 4:57:47 5:08:51 5:21:23 5:33:07 6:25:08 4:43:32
M65-69 90 4:58:30 5:16:32 5:26:20 5:47:09 6:31:38 4:58:30
M70-74 30 5:27:42 5:31:52 5:38:05 5:50:28 6:33:21 5:27:42

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 2,302 4:46:08 5:11:32 5:26:00 5:43:59 6:29:49 4:31:29
F18-24 76 4:41:18 4:55:47 5:15:43 5:35:39 6:18:39 4:41:18
F25-29 235 4:38:00 5:04:56 5:27:11 5:38:46 6:20:06 4:31:29
F30-34 278 4:42:38 4:56:29 5:10:15 5:31:04 6:17:31 4:35:54
F35-39 289 4:39:50 5:08:40 5:15:34 5:34:58 6:14:58 4:31:54
F40-44 339 4:41:07 5:05:53 5:23:37 5:40:51 6:30:25 4:33:19
F45-49 365 4:55:49 5:18:57 5:29:55 5:48:23 6:30:31 4:50:36
F50-54 300 4:54:47 5:16:51 5:34:28 5:53:23 6:36:29 4:46:09
F55-59 239 5:09:43 5:28:26 5:38:43 5:52:58 6:40:46 5:02:43
F60-64 120 5:17:29 5:24:42 5:43:37 5:58:59 6:53:20 5:16:23
F65-69 48 5:42:45 6:00:25 6:01:48 6:32:13 7:17:00 5:42:45
F70-74 11 6:35:39 6:35:39 6:39:04 6:41:59 7:37:48 6:35:39

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.