Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 Oceanside California 2017 · 2,410 finishers

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 1,734 4:10:44 4:43:23 5:00:29 5:20:55 6:05:01 3:50:04
MPRO 36 3:50:04 3:53:15 3:58:09 4:00:36 4:10:44 3:50:04
M18-24 17 4:28:09 4:28:09 4:34:11 4:47:48 5:24:37 4:28:09
M25-29 80 4:25:47 4:39:52 4:45:41 5:10:49 5:51:11 4:25:47
M30-34 198 4:22:24 4:35:27 4:46:34 5:08:58 5:48:23 4:18:02
M35-39 312 4:31:34 4:44:24 4:52:14 5:12:41 5:50:20 4:22:18
M40-44 341 4:38:44 4:57:02 5:07:39 5:22:46 6:06:41 4:26:41
M45-49 312 4:42:11 4:56:18 5:09:24 5:33:47 6:10:14 4:34:13
M50-54 209 4:51:34 5:07:39 5:18:51 5:38:42 6:17:09 4:25:27
M55-59 140 4:50:56 5:10:01 5:20:30 5:47:54 6:23:08 4:46:24
M60-64 60 5:17:27 5:25:37 5:34:14 5:54:12 6:41:25 5:17:27
M65-69 20 5:38:09 5:38:09 6:01:06 6:05:01 6:29:12 5:38:09
M70-74 7 7:14:53 7:14:53 7:14:53 7:18:29 7:56:41 7:14:53

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 676 4:31:20 5:07:59 5:30:05 5:53:17 6:41:23 4:14:18
FPRO 21 4:14:18 4:23:21 4:25:22 4:28:07 4:41:26 4:14:18
F18-24 12 5:01:16 5:01:16 5:31:53 5:33:11 6:27:09 5:01:16
F25-29 44 4:53:33 5:03:31 5:30:11 5:53:56 6:28:49 4:53:33
F30-34 90 4:50:19 5:09:30 5:21:21 5:41:56 6:19:32 4:50:19
F35-39 94 4:45:10 5:16:37 5:42:23 5:55:38 6:28:38 4:45:10
F40-44 139 5:05:11 5:27:11 5:34:38 5:58:06 6:43:45 5:00:19
F45-49 123 5:00:23 5:42:47 5:53:17 6:11:21 6:49:31 4:56:43
F50-54 79 5:06:57 5:21:39 5:40:54 5:52:41 6:30:14 5:06:57
F55-59 44 5:23:08 5:28:20 5:40:22 6:05:56 6:58:41 5:23:08
F60-64 23 5:54:01 6:02:11 6:23:28 6:41:23 7:14:29 5:54:01
F65-69 5 6:45:04 6:45:04 6:45:04 6:45:04 6:55:42 6:45:04

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.