Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 Panama · 7 editions (2012, 2013, 2014, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026) · 5,458 finishers

Editions: 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2022 · 2023 · 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 4,194 4:09:02 4:32:22 4:45:55 5:02:25 5:40:15 3:38:28
MPRO 56 3:38:28 3:43:24 3:48:06 3:53:38 4:05:19 3:38:28
M18-24 90 3:56:19 4:19:59 4:35:51 4:44:04 5:26:46 3:56:19
M25-29 338 4:14:46 4:26:41 4:37:58 4:52:11 5:30:57 4:09:02
M30-34 689 4:17:15 4:28:35 4:40:18 4:55:05 5:31:52 4:00:47
M35-39 934 4:14:19 4:32:13 4:45:25 5:01:54 5:38:11 3:48:57
M40-44 812 4:27:44 4:41:13 4:51:24 5:06:33 5:40:47 4:08:26
M45-49 622 4:28:26 4:43:00 4:53:56 5:10:09 5:45:50 4:01:30
M50-54 358 4:28:25 4:45:00 4:58:50 5:10:03 5:45:46 4:11:56
M55-59 169 4:47:46 5:01:06 5:08:55 5:29:31 6:03:59 4:38:53
M60-64 74 4:51:39 5:07:18 5:21:44 5:38:15 6:24:33 4:51:39
M65-69 39 5:17:16 5:31:17 5:35:07 5:49:02 6:33:57 5:17:16
M70-74 11 5:41:41 5:41:41 5:49:58 6:03:42 6:49:46 5:41:41

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 1,264 4:23:20 4:49:28 5:06:38 5:27:50 6:06:15 4:04:58
FPRO 38 4:04:58 4:06:16 4:13:24 4:19:11 4:29:08 4:04:58
F18-24 45 4:58:16 5:04:54 5:07:33 5:21:11 5:55:06 4:58:16
F25-29 140 4:34:02 4:46:40 4:58:04 5:18:25 5:47:06 4:33:19
F30-34 247 4:41:10 4:57:04 5:08:01 5:26:53 5:59:42 4:33:13
F35-39 259 4:40:29 4:56:17 5:13:47 5:34:58 6:06:56 4:30:37
F40-44 222 4:33:56 4:59:44 5:16:54 5:35:56 6:08:24 4:32:16
F45-49 165 5:00:00 5:13:23 5:21:22 5:40:59 6:23:19 4:50:03
F50-54 89 4:48:10 5:19:23 5:34:11 5:49:06 6:27:27 4:48:10
F55-59 43 4:58:55 5:18:03 5:41:24 6:11:33 6:39:46 4:58:55
F60-64 8 5:23:51 5:23:51 5:23:51 5:40:59 6:13:22 5:23:51
F65-69 5 6:03:52 6:03:52 6:03:52 6:03:52 6:35:14 6:03:52

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.