Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 Port Macquarie · 13 editions (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) · 11,644 finishers

Editions: 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 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 8,654 4:00:33 4:29:01 4:41:00 4:56:13 5:33:35 3:19:28
MPRO 75 3:19:28 3:23:26 3:24:44 3:33:39 4:00:32 3:19:28
M18-24 526 3:59:17 4:19:12 4:30:57 4:45:32 5:25:03 3:36:00
M25-29 1,072 3:54:38 4:20:51 4:32:43 4:46:46 5:22:54 3:32:05
M30-34 1,398 4:11:48 4:27:34 4:35:50 4:50:26 5:24:18 3:36:42
M35-39 1,499 4:08:08 4:29:18 4:40:21 4:54:38 5:30:19 3:33:57
M40-44 1,503 4:15:53 4:34:48 4:46:21 4:59:43 5:34:26 3:48:06
M45-49 1,071 4:18:42 4:40:45 4:51:10 5:05:30 5:44:04 3:40:15
M50-54 758 4:26:30 4:45:03 4:55:16 5:07:50 5:46:28 3:54:10
M55-59 400 4:23:42 4:49:40 4:57:41 5:13:17 5:52:38 4:19:01
M60-64 227 4:42:09 5:02:30 5:12:56 5:31:13 6:09:22 4:30:36
M65-69 88 4:48:04 5:20:01 5:38:16 5:47:18 6:31:01 4:48:04
M70-74 35 4:31:55 5:27:13 5:44:29 5:55:11 7:02:36 4:31:55

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 2,990 4:28:25 4:56:50 5:07:44 5:26:22 6:05:34 3:45:56
FPRO 41 3:45:56 3:51:42 3:54:53 4:00:36 4:37:08 3:45:56
F18-24 159 4:08:46 4:51:42 5:02:19 5:18:37 6:00:01 4:05:35
F25-29 427 4:19:31 4:50:06 5:01:13 5:15:15 5:56:21 3:56:03
F30-34 526 4:33:13 4:55:58 5:03:06 5:17:38 5:58:22 4:18:59
F35-39 463 4:43:50 5:01:30 5:09:27 5:22:33 6:00:39 4:32:27
F40-44 509 4:46:14 5:02:02 5:12:01 5:27:42 6:04:50 4:29:50
F45-49 381 4:56:24 5:08:52 5:24:37 5:39:13 6:20:06 4:39:23
F50-54 267 5:05:07 5:21:20 5:34:27 5:47:48 6:28:40 4:27:38
F55-59 136 4:56:08 5:21:12 5:32:53 5:52:01 6:35:40 4:23:38
F60-64 61 5:09:47 5:40:30 5:53:24 6:07:21 6:47:41 5:09:47
F65-69 17 5:47:11 5:47:11 5:58:02 6:40:44 6:59:30 5:47:11

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.