Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 Shanghai Chongming · 1 editions (2025) · 1,058 finishers

Editions: 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 862 3:56:52 4:34:40 4:44:29 5:04:19 5:46:57 3:38:03
MPRO 11 3:38:03 3:38:03 3:43:48 3:44:28 3:51:31 3:38:03
M18-24 23 4:16:45 4:29:02 4:34:40 4:40:18 5:26:02 4:16:45
M25-29 57 4:20:06 4:26:32 4:39:34 4:47:04 5:30:25 4:20:06
M30-34 117 4:13:40 4:37:38 4:45:29 5:04:06 5:50:22 3:51:35
M35-39 181 4:01:49 4:33:24 4:41:15 5:02:25 5:38:47 4:01:29
M40-44 209 4:21:43 4:40:07 4:52:20 5:06:36 5:46:02 4:05:04
M45-49 120 4:23:44 4:35:35 4:53:17 5:22:57 5:48:42 4:19:56
M50-54 78 4:41:08 4:50:09 4:57:38 5:10:35 6:04:04 4:41:08
M55-59 41 4:35:56 4:42:28 4:53:57 5:42:25 6:21:55 4:35:56
M60-64 17 5:02:30 5:02:30 5:05:39 5:29:27 5:57:08 5:02:30
M65-69 6 5:16:38 5:16:38 5:16:38 5:25:04 5:32:54 5:16:38

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 196 4:13:17 4:50:53 5:06:40 5:28:46 6:06:30 4:06:10
FPRO 5 4:06:10 4:06:10 4:06:10 4:06:10 4:24:46 4:06:10
F25-29 13 4:58:25 4:58:25 5:30:18 5:32:22 6:20:37 4:58:25
F30-34 38 4:51:26 4:55:56 5:09:32 5:30:53 6:05:41 4:51:26
F35-39 42 4:34:54 4:48:05 4:58:02 5:22:06 6:03:08 4:34:54
F40-44 40 4:38:54 4:48:55 5:08:13 5:27:02 5:57:26 4:38:54
F45-49 23 4:51:48 5:06:40 5:14:18 5:28:46 6:03:57 4:51:48
F50-54 20 5:28:02 5:28:02 5:37:16 5:57:18 6:26:54 5:28:02
F55-59 8 5:39:30 5:39:30 5:39:30 5:43:47 6:08:33 5:39:30

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.