Age-group thresholds
IRONMAN 70.3 Tours Metropole - Loire Valley · 1 editions (2025) · 2,195 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 | 1,769 | 3:53:46 | 4:18:38 | 4:29:01 | 4:44:32 | 5:20:01 | 3:36:14 |
| MPRO | 20 | 3:36:14 | 3:36:14 | 3:38:25 | 3:40:18 | 3:44:18 | 3:36:14 |
| M18-24 | 117 | 4:04:14 | 4:17:13 | 4:22:50 | 4:47:05 | 5:17:56 | 4:01:09 |
| M25-29 | 248 | 4:02:37 | 4:17:09 | 4:23:31 | 4:36:23 | 5:13:04 | 3:54:35 |
| M30-34 | 282 | 4:04:21 | 4:18:15 | 4:24:08 | 4:42:07 | 5:15:58 | 3:48:36 |
| M35-39 | 260 | 4:10:05 | 4:18:05 | 4:26:04 | 4:42:58 | 5:15:03 | 4:01:49 |
| M40-44 | 206 | 4:15:01 | 4:23:51 | 4:28:27 | 4:41:02 | 5:19:26 | 4:10:40 |
| M45-49 | 219 | 4:13:53 | 4:19:55 | 4:29:42 | 4:43:01 | 5:23:28 | 4:11:26 |
| M50-54 | 192 | 4:18:09 | 4:36:24 | 4:42:26 | 4:56:49 | 5:27:32 | 4:16:20 |
| M55-59 | 138 | 4:32:15 | 4:40:35 | 4:54:45 | 5:10:00 | 5:45:54 | 4:28:56 |
| M60-64 | 55 | 4:36:09 | 4:42:49 | 4:51:46 | 5:00:57 | 5:33:31 | 4:36:09 |
| M65-69 | 26 | 4:56:50 | 5:06:22 | 5:12:42 | 5:26:20 | 5:53:24 | 4:56:50 |
Women
| Age group | Finishers | Top 1% | Top 5% | Top 10% | Top 20% | Median | Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All age groups | 426 | 4:18:20 | 4:50:31 | 5:06:38 | 5:25:11 | 6:01:44 | 4:01:36 |
| FPRO | 9 | 4:01:36 | 4:01:36 | 4:01:36 | 4:06:03 | 4:18:20 | 4:01:36 |
| F18-24 | 30 | 4:22:07 | 4:27:25 | 4:30:00 | 4:59:26 | 5:47:09 | 4:22:07 |
| F25-29 | 66 | 4:45:27 | 4:50:31 | 5:04:19 | 5:28:33 | 5:56:55 | 4:45:27 |
| F30-34 | 68 | 4:35:24 | 5:02:52 | 5:10:15 | 5:32:48 | 5:52:37 | 4:35:24 |
| F35-39 | 43 | 4:41:57 | 5:00:57 | 5:10:20 | 5:21:46 | 6:02:49 | 4:41:57 |
| F40-44 | 43 | 4:34:49 | 5:05:55 | 5:09:14 | 5:25:11 | 6:08:29 | 4:34:49 |
| F45-49 | 55 | 4:22:25 | 4:54:52 | 5:09:08 | 5:20:54 | 6:05:46 | 4:22:25 |
| F50-54 | 59 | 4:56:57 | 5:03:28 | 5:27:35 | 5:34:35 | 6:06:03 | 4:56:57 |
| F55-59 | 36 | 5:01:40 | 5:10:22 | 5:13:37 | 5:46:16 | 6:18:01 | 5:01:40 |
| F60-64 | 12 | 5:41:58 | 5:41:58 | 5:50:45 | 5:56:23 | 6:00:18 | 5:41:58 |
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.