Age-group thresholds

IRONMAN 70.3 Switzerland · 14 editions (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) · 23,294 finishers

Editions: 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2021 · 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 19,182 4:04:48 4:27:59 4:39:19 4:54:33 5:27:22 3:26:53
MPRO 248 3:32:08 3:38:43 3:45:20 3:51:04 4:01:33 3:26:53
M18-24 624 4:07:18 4:16:40 4:25:55 4:39:07 5:14:37 3:45:32
M25-29 1,950 4:08:22 4:22:31 4:31:00 4:45:48 5:19:58 3:44:02
M30-34 3,400 4:11:08 4:25:04 4:35:29 4:48:34 5:18:48 3:50:46
M35-39 3,479 4:16:27 4:30:32 4:39:52 4:52:55 5:24:45 3:57:18
M40-44 3,325 4:20:12 4:34:42 4:43:02 4:56:53 5:28:18 3:57:22
M45-49 2,886 4:22:07 4:38:02 4:47:58 5:02:29 5:33:40 3:55:24
M50-54 1,924 4:29:44 4:44:02 4:52:54 5:07:41 5:38:41 4:16:14
M55-59 898 4:34:06 4:50:44 4:59:57 5:15:07 5:44:02 4:19:42
M60-64 311 4:39:21 4:57:01 5:07:58 5:22:21 5:52:56 4:25:28
M65-69 98 4:45:16 5:06:03 5:16:03 5:32:02 6:06:51 4:45:16
M70-74 34 5:28:18 5:30:00 5:37:15 6:17:22 6:38:59 5:28:18

Women

Age group Finishers Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 20% Median Best
All age groups 4,112 4:22:45 4:46:13 4:59:44 5:16:54 5:49:38 3:52:30
FPRO 122 3:56:40 4:04:33 4:08:52 4:17:00 4:30:55 3:52:30
F18-24 191 4:29:16 4:50:01 5:01:02 5:15:37 5:56:17 4:23:37
F25-29 680 4:30:42 4:48:03 4:58:17 5:12:23 5:45:15 4:18:41
F30-34 945 4:33:53 4:52:13 4:59:57 5:14:54 5:46:04 4:08:19
F35-39 656 4:40:15 4:55:53 5:03:40 5:18:09 5:45:34 4:20:37
F40-44 593 4:43:08 4:57:14 5:10:29 5:22:10 5:51:40 4:23:54
F45-49 478 4:46:13 4:59:37 5:16:12 5:27:30 5:58:53 4:22:21
F50-54 294 4:56:12 5:08:41 5:21:09 5:33:07 6:03:28 4:47:09
F55-59 107 5:01:43 5:22:03 5:29:24 5:44:01 6:14:57 4:53:28
F60-64 36 5:08:44 5:25:24 5:31:09 5:58:37 6:31:32 5:08:44
F65-69 10 5:42:02 5:42:02 5:42:02 5:47:55 6:18:06 5:42:02

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.