Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 Rio de Janeiro · 9 editions (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) · 10,518 finishers

Editions: 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 8,733 4:12:05 4:39:06 4:50:21 5:05:21 5:41:30 3:31:24
MPRO 73 3:31:24 3:35:57 3:45:27 3:55:38 4:03:40 3:31:24
M18-24 218 4:13:58 4:38:03 4:43:51 4:54:06 5:25:03 3:53:02
M25-29 775 4:12:14 4:36:52 4:44:41 4:57:15 5:30:56 3:52:00
M30-34 1,617 4:19:06 4:35:12 4:48:00 5:01:14 5:34:02 3:59:28
M35-39 2,122 4:18:58 4:40:36 4:50:11 5:04:17 5:38:30 3:50:06
M40-44 1,790 4:23:45 4:41:52 4:52:30 5:07:18 5:42:22 3:59:58
M45-49 1,158 4:19:03 4:44:26 4:58:51 5:13:33 5:47:36 3:49:48
M50-54 556 4:38:13 4:54:21 5:02:39 5:19:41 5:58:44 4:22:35
M55-59 278 4:38:21 4:56:39 5:11:24 5:26:49 5:59:38 4:17:01
M60-64 116 4:56:18 5:10:01 5:21:57 5:45:00 6:16:07 4:51:31
M65-69 27 5:21:28 5:22:15 5:36:16 6:06:20 7:03:18 5:21:28

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 1,785 4:29:42 4:55:49 5:10:51 5:28:32 6:04:39 4:01:23
FPRO 40 4:01:23 4:05:29 4:17:28 4:23:49 4:33:43 4:01:23
F18-24 44 4:53:04 5:02:15 5:11:01 5:24:18 5:48:31 4:53:04
F25-29 169 4:39:20 4:55:16 5:08:13 5:20:13 5:56:43 4:26:01
F30-34 365 4:37:44 4:59:44 5:13:50 5:28:16 6:02:26 4:26:46
F35-39 429 4:39:52 4:55:57 5:07:50 5:25:10 6:01:22 4:23:32
F40-44 338 4:50:56 5:02:20 5:17:07 5:37:33 6:04:12 4:48:32
F45-49 215 4:58:27 5:12:43 5:25:02 5:38:57 6:14:31 4:37:02
F50-54 117 5:12:14 5:26:15 5:35:58 5:46:03 6:29:59 5:04:42
F55-59 44 5:04:06 5:36:51 5:38:25 5:55:04 6:25:40 5:04:06
F60-64 18 5:44:13 5:44:13 5:56:42 6:05:22 6:35:36 5:44:13
F65-69 6 6:04:42 6:04:42 6:04:42 6:19:59 6:27:58 6:04:42

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.