Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 Rio de Janeiro 2017 · 1,176 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 1,001 4:08:54 4:42:02 4:53:11 5:08:30 5:44:01 3:54:59
MPRO 15 3:54:59 3:54:59 3:56:10 3:56:48 4:02:43 3:54:59
M18-24 23 4:30:58 4:44:03 4:46:49 4:51:25 5:24:08 4:30:58
M25-29 75 4:36:15 4:41:18 4:53:04 5:02:25 5:52:39 4:36:15
M30-34 200 4:22:32 4:39:29 4:50:16 5:05:44 5:39:29 4:19:12
M35-39 288 4:31:44 4:44:55 4:50:11 5:05:24 5:37:10 4:22:31
M40-44 197 4:39:47 4:52:30 4:59:48 5:12:37 5:44:42 4:09:17
M45-49 120 4:35:54 5:02:09 5:11:39 5:23:30 5:55:38 4:34:55
M50-54 57 4:44:51 4:54:29 5:01:49 5:21:37 6:07:45 4:44:51
M55-59 20 5:07:18 5:07:18 5:11:53 5:28:42 5:52:01 5:07:18

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 175 4:31:10 4:55:04 5:19:11 5:31:52 6:15:26 4:23:49
FPRO 5 4:23:49 4:23:49 4:23:49 4:23:49 4:32:46 4:23:49
F25-29 20 4:45:34 4:45:34 5:30:16 5:48:47 6:26:52 4:45:34
F30-34 36 5:07:01 5:10:51 5:22:35 5:34:05 6:18:24 5:07:01
F35-39 44 4:39:35 4:55:04 5:04:05 5:25:14 6:05:08 4:39:35
F40-44 31 4:55:49 5:09:21 5:28:11 5:42:37 6:03:51 4:55:49
F45-49 22 5:19:11 5:25:15 5:27:09 5:45:20 6:10:37 5:19:11
F50-54 11 5:35:58 5:35:58 5:46:03 5:53:59 6:06:40 5:35:58

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.