Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 Salalah · 3 editions (2023, 2024, 2025) · 695 finishers

Editions: 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 562 4:12:47 4:39:25 4:49:53 5:07:27 5:52:41 4:01:28
M18-24 18 4:46:49 4:46:49 4:48:49 4:56:00 5:13:54 4:46:49
M25-29 50 4:01:28 4:24:24 4:43:16 4:58:43 5:43:07 4:01:28
M30-34 80 4:18:55 4:39:25 4:43:54 4:57:21 5:39:27 4:18:55
M35-39 102 4:16:08 4:24:32 4:36:08 4:55:40 5:43:46 4:06:22
M40-44 125 4:12:47 4:38:51 4:54:20 5:14:51 5:59:11 4:06:01
M45-49 81 4:06:51 4:42:56 4:54:18 5:08:32 5:54:21 4:06:51
M50-54 50 4:39:08 4:46:29 4:57:18 5:08:15 5:49:00 4:39:08
M55-59 33 4:53:02 5:18:01 5:24:14 5:45:55 6:15:34 4:53:02
M60-64 17 5:02:36 5:02:36 5:26:40 5:44:57 6:19:26 5:02:36
M65-69 6 5:37:49 5:37:49 5:37:49 5:52:25 6:34:59 5:37:49

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 133 4:50:17 5:05:51 5:14:57 5:31:09 6:12:27 4:44:42
F18-24 5 5:14:57 5:14:57 5:14:57 5:14:57 6:31:44 5:14:57
F25-29 7 4:50:17 4:50:17 4:50:17 5:21:50 6:12:11 4:50:17
F30-34 22 4:53:07 5:07:51 5:10:56 5:19:32 6:04:53 4:53:07
F35-39 26 4:44:42 4:52:05 4:56:55 5:35:20 5:55:54 4:44:42
F40-44 26 5:05:51 5:09:42 5:09:46 5:20:31 5:47:20 5:05:51
F45-49 22 5:11:28 5:24:35 5:33:59 5:55:55 6:12:35 5:11:28
F50-54 13 5:27:11 5:27:11 5:35:21 5:38:18 6:17:42 5:27:11
F60-64 6 5:40:15 5:40:15 5:40:15 6:39:59 7:08:09 5:40:15

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.