Kona qualifying times · 2026

Kona qualifying times for M75-79

Men 75-79: what it took to earn a IRONMAN World Championship slot at every IRONMAN race of 2026 and 2025.

13:06:57median finish needed, 2026
14:17:35most accessible · IRONMAN Penghu
12:19:23fastest cutoff · IRONMAN Copenhagen
16M75-79 slots at 16 races

What time do I need to qualify for Kona in M75-79?

  • M75-79 athletes earned 16 IRONMAN World Championship slots at 16 of the 35 full-distance IRONMAN qualifiers in our 2026 results.
  • The median finish time needed for a slot was 13:06:57; it ranged from 12:19:23 at 2026 IRONMAN Copenhagen to 14:17:35 at 2026 IRONMAN Penghu.
  • 2026 IRONMAN Frankfurt, 2026 IRONMAN UK Leeds were raced on a shortened course and are left out of the comparison.
  • In 2025: a median 13:29:23 across 17 races (12:37:27 to 15:43:06).
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Where M75-79 qualified with the slowest times in 2026

Races where the last M75-79 slot needed the slowest finish — a rough guide to where a slot is most within reach. Course, weather and the field change year to year, so check the race’s own history too.

#1 · 12 Apr

IRONMAN Penghu

14:17:35 needed · 1 slot

#2 · 19 Jul

IRONMAN Lake Placid

14:00:00 needed · 1 slot

#3 · 13 Sept

IRONMAN Japan South Hokkaido

13:42:28 needed · 1 slot

#4 · 1 Nov

IRONMAN San Juan

13:29:22 needed · 1 slot

#5 · 14 Jun

IRONMAN Cairns

13:22:54 needed · 1 slot

M75-79 at every 2026 IRONMAN qualifier

M75-79 athletes earned 16 IRONMAN World Championship slots at 16 of the 35 full-distance IRONMAN qualifiers in our 2026 results. The median finish time needed for a slot was 13:06:57; it ranged from 12:19:23 at 2026 IRONMAN Copenhagen to 14:17:35 at 2026 IRONMAN Penghu. 2026 IRONMAN Frankfurt, 2026 IRONMAN UK Leeds were raced on a shortened course and are left out of the comparison.

M75-79 qualifying times, 2026
RaceDateSlotsLast slotNeeded
IRONMAN Penghu12 Apr1winner15:41:451st14:17:35
IRONMAN Texas18 Apr1winner12:31:161st13:09:54
IRONMAN Jacksonville16 May1winner12:34:501st13:19:53
IRONMAN Tours Metropole - Loire Valley14 Jun1winner15:25:101st12:47:42
IRONMAN Kaernten-Klagenfurt, Austria14 Jun1winner16:20:281st12:41:45
IRONMAN Cairns14 Jun1winner16:08:121st13:22:54
IRONMAN Switzerland Thun6 Jul1winner13:52:361st13:09:43
IRONMAN Lake Placid19 Jul1winner14:45:541st14:00:00
IRONMAN Canada-Ottawa2 Aug1winner14:25:531st12:59:53
IRONMAN Kalmar-Sweden15 Aug1winner14:02:581st12:45:11
IRONMAN Copenhagen16 Aug1winner13:49:581st12:19:23
IRONMAN Japan South Hokkaido13 Sept1winner14:51:291st13:42:28
IRONMAN Maryland19 Sept1winner13:36:441st12:56:49
IRONMAN California18 Oct1winner15:29:491st12:54:41
IRONMAN San Juan1 Nov1winner15:34:061st13:29:22
IRONMAN Florida7 Nov1winner15:49:361st13:04:11
Last slot: the slowest M75-79 qualifier’s finish time and age-group place. Needed: the finish time that equalled the pool’s age-graded cutoff for M75-79 at that race — any faster finish earned a slot. Age-group winners qualify whatever their time. Before any rolldown.

M75-79 at every 2025 IRONMAN qualifier

M75-79 athletes earned 18 IRONMAN World Championship slots at 17 of the 35 full-distance IRONMAN qualifiers in our 2025 results. The median finish time needed for a slot was 13:29:23; it ranged from 12:37:27 at 2025 IRONMAN California to 15:43:06 at 2025 IRONMAN France Nice. 2025 IRONMAN Australia was raced on a shortened course and is left out of the comparison. Slots went deepest at 2025 IRONMAN Chattanooga: 2 M75-79 qualifiers, the last in 2nd place.

M75-79 qualifying times, 2025
RaceDateSlotsLast slotNeeded
IRONMAN Texas26 Apr1winner15:41:391st15:13:29
IRONMAN Lanzarote17 May1winner15:46:161st14:54:35
IRONMAN Hamburg1 Jun1winner12:29:201st13:06:21
IRONMAN Kaernten-Klagenfurt, Austria15 Jun1winner14:37:051st13:54:53
IRONMAN France Nice29 Jun1winner14:28:161st15:43:06
IRONMAN Canada-Ottawa3 Aug1winner16:55:131st14:25:29
IRONMAN Kalmar-Sweden16 Aug1winner15:56:171st12:45:19
IRONMAN Switzerland Thun24 Aug1winner16:54:011st13:21:24
IRONMAN Japan South Hokkaido14 Sept1winner14:42:391st13:55:32
IRONMAN Emilia Romagna20 Sept1winner13:53:061st12:38:50
IRONMAN Maryland20 Sept1winner13:27:241st13:18:27
IRONMAN Gurye Korea28 Sept1winner16:56:121st13:29:23
IRONMAN Chattanooga28 Sept213:22:402nd13:30:35
IRONMAN California19 Oct1winner14:02:421st12:37:27
IRONMAN Florida1 Nov1winner12:13:271st13:23:14
IRONMAN Cozumel23 Nov1winner16:12:151st13:21:01
IRONMAN Western Australia7 Dec1winner15:25:551st13:38:58
Last slot: the slowest M75-79 qualifier’s finish time and age-group place. Needed: the finish time that equalled the pool’s age-graded cutoff for M75-79 at that race — any faster finish earned a slot. Age-group winners qualify whatever their time. Before any rolldown.

How Kona qualifying works

Every age-group winner gets a slot. The rest of a race’s slots go by age-graded time: each finish time is multiplied by IRONMAN’s factor for the athlete’s age group, and the fastest adjusted times take the remaining slots — from 2026, in separate women’s and men’s pools. So the “needed” time differs by age group even within one race. Each race page models the allocation athlete by athlete, including rolldown.

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Modelled from the official results with IRONMAN’s published age-group factors; always confirm with the official race-day allocation. Plain-text version: /ironmanwc/kona-qualifying-times/m75-79.md. Not affiliated with the IRONMAN Group.