Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 New York · 3 editions (2023, 2024, 2025) · 6,709 finishers

Editions: 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 5,036 4:16:35 4:36:15 4:53:06 5:12:29 5:54:31 3:40:47
M18-24 360 4:06:26 4:39:04 4:54:23 5:13:31 5:52:04 3:48:33
M25-29 755 4:10:26 4:29:31 4:44:58 5:07:05 5:51:31 3:57:54
M30-34 736 4:02:41 4:25:57 4:48:06 5:05:04 5:46:00 3:41:08
M35-39 712 4:13:30 4:33:28 4:43:20 5:03:10 5:47:03 3:40:47
M40-44 682 4:13:32 4:35:12 4:52:31 5:10:08 5:50:24 3:56:32
M45-49 598 4:24:01 4:43:40 4:56:14 5:10:50 5:51:07 4:16:22
M50-54 467 4:30:04 4:44:27 4:58:10 5:15:46 6:05:42 4:13:40
M55-59 385 4:29:35 4:51:55 5:05:15 5:26:19 6:07:19 4:16:35
M60-64 225 4:55:05 5:15:20 5:26:43 5:45:47 6:21:00 4:11:47
M65-69 88 4:55:02 5:21:36 5:29:03 5:42:22 6:32:32 4:55:02
M70-74 22 5:56:26 6:16:20 6:17:06 6:22:16 6:44:54 5:56:26

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 1,673 4:41:31 5:07:27 5:24:40 5:43:50 6:28:08 4:28:26
F18-24 133 4:54:48 5:08:50 5:22:31 5:45:17 6:22:42 4:53:18
F25-29 235 4:38:16 5:04:30 5:19:57 5:35:06 6:17:23 4:28:26
F30-34 248 4:39:55 5:00:11 5:19:29 5:36:30 6:23:03 4:29:05
F35-39 192 4:39:28 4:56:32 5:13:39 5:38:35 6:16:49 4:37:22
F40-44 230 4:35:19 4:57:47 5:17:57 5:37:19 6:28:48 4:32:44
F45-49 219 4:48:14 5:05:52 5:29:52 5:48:07 6:28:30 4:41:31
F50-54 178 5:01:36 5:14:16 5:25:15 5:44:56 6:29:27 4:49:01
F55-59 137 5:18:04 5:33:27 5:48:22 6:07:10 6:42:45 5:01:38
F60-64 65 5:24:38 5:44:20 5:46:40 6:09:19 7:00:58 5:24:38
F65-69 25 5:48:40 6:07:11 6:10:41 6:24:22 6:58:47 5:48:40
F70-74 8 6:00:52 6:00:52 6:00:52 6:35:43 7:07:35 6:00:52

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.