Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 New Zealand · 10 editions (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026) · 5,897 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 3,754 4:14:04 4:35:25 4:46:18 5:02:43 5:41:47 3:49:18
MPRO 9 3:49:18 3:49:18 3:49:18 3:57:08 4:03:02 3:49:18
M18-24 275 4:04:29 4:15:29 4:28:44 4:45:03 5:26:38 4:01:05
M25-29 507 4:13:03 4:29:19 4:38:24 4:57:11 5:30:49 3:58:29
M30-34 530 4:13:34 4:28:29 4:42:26 5:00:44 5:40:06 4:05:45
M35-39 506 4:16:43 4:33:36 4:43:30 4:55:42 5:36:16 4:04:25
M40-44 446 4:26:29 4:38:09 4:44:22 4:56:59 5:35:31 4:03:39
M45-49 464 4:33:10 4:40:07 4:46:43 4:57:49 5:43:05 4:14:07
M50-54 402 4:37:15 4:45:03 4:52:18 5:08:36 5:53:56 4:30:48
M55-59 307 4:46:02 4:56:45 5:05:25 5:17:08 5:49:45 4:38:24
M60-64 171 4:55:53 5:09:37 5:22:47 5:30:45 6:14:40 4:48:32
M65-69 74 5:00:49 5:17:45 5:21:10 5:38:43 6:22:30 5:00:49
M70-74 44 5:37:28 5:41:26 5:47:03 6:13:29 6:52:14 5:37:28
M75-79 12 6:29:15 6:29:15 6:37:38 6:46:12 7:27:32 6:29:15
M80-84 6 7:05:49 7:05:49 7:05:49 7:12:43 7:14:40 7:05:49

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 2,143 4:45:52 5:03:26 5:19:29 5:37:22 6:18:41 4:21:09
FPRO 6 4:21:09 4:21:09 4:21:09 4:23:27 4:24:37 4:21:09
F18-24 188 4:56:11 5:04:07 5:22:50 5:39:01 6:12:38 4:32:17
F25-29 396 4:46:16 4:57:09 5:11:56 5:30:20 6:06:57 4:36:25
F30-34 301 4:46:22 5:00:27 5:09:39 5:28:28 6:07:09 4:34:08
F35-39 284 4:51:06 5:04:30 5:13:43 5:28:06 6:12:39 4:39:24
F40-44 241 4:40:57 5:02:26 5:16:20 5:34:26 6:12:43 4:32:48
F45-49 274 4:48:09 5:07:43 5:26:25 5:43:04 6:24:08 4:38:09
F50-54 201 5:01:00 5:22:27 5:32:42 5:49:59 6:32:47 4:45:30
F55-59 142 5:27:38 5:35:01 5:44:44 6:01:11 6:40:05 5:06:11
F60-64 67 5:28:09 5:40:37 5:43:09 5:56:27 6:48:20 5:28:09
F65-69 35 5:34:37 5:39:41 5:57:08 6:27:53 7:03:47 5:34:37
F70-74 5 6:09:30 6:09:30 6:09:30 6:09:30 8:00:41 6:09:30

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.