Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 Swansea · 4 editions (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) · 6,110 finishers

Editions: 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 4,925 4:10:53 4:50:08 5:07:07 5:27:26 6:07:57 3:49:34
MPRO 74 3:49:34 3:52:29 3:55:36 3:58:16 4:06:43 3:49:34
M18-24 288 4:15:37 4:43:56 5:01:08 5:26:59 6:05:23 4:10:44
M25-29 574 4:29:49 4:51:06 5:04:29 5:24:56 6:03:26 4:10:53
M30-34 777 4:28:50 4:45:49 4:56:58 5:17:02 5:58:44 4:21:06
M35-39 793 4:28:08 4:50:18 5:05:09 5:22:13 6:01:18 4:17:53
M40-44 735 4:40:36 5:00:45 5:14:46 5:30:40 6:06:24 4:22:40
M45-49 643 4:42:19 4:57:35 5:15:25 5:32:13 6:09:39 4:08:04
M50-54 566 4:54:40 5:13:53 5:23:15 5:37:21 6:17:55 4:39:57
M55-59 296 4:59:48 5:19:03 5:30:48 5:51:41 6:35:57 4:49:51
M60-64 127 5:16:19 5:36:11 5:45:19 5:55:31 6:36:38 5:15:40
M65-69 40 5:14:05 5:19:30 5:40:08 6:07:48 7:11:02 5:14:05
M70-74 10 6:23:07 6:23:07 6:23:07 6:40:57 7:03:29 6:23:07

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 1,185 4:30:35 5:09:52 5:31:21 5:55:57 6:43:03 4:20:37
FPRO 38 4:20:37 4:21:05 4:24:33 4:27:33 4:35:48 4:20:37
F18-24 91 4:51:58 5:23:26 5:41:55 5:52:27 6:31:21 4:51:58
F25-29 164 4:38:10 5:08:50 5:21:06 5:44:03 6:21:28 4:33:28
F30-34 147 4:56:54 5:11:56 5:18:26 5:43:14 6:16:55 4:52:18
F35-39 138 5:05:29 5:14:25 5:39:03 5:49:46 6:37:57 4:50:27
F40-44 202 5:13:11 5:27:50 5:42:39 6:05:56 6:55:57 5:09:34
F45-49 172 5:21:28 5:45:47 6:00:04 6:16:41 6:55:25 5:13:34
F50-54 123 5:27:47 5:52:28 6:06:43 6:19:52 7:07:43 5:25:34
F55-59 67 5:20:11 5:48:52 6:00:11 6:20:06 7:02:01 5:20:11
F60-64 33 6:01:17 6:10:15 6:11:11 6:40:56 7:17:49 6:01:17
F65-69 9 7:02:25 7:02:25 7:02:25 7:12:10 7:41:17 7:02:25

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.