Just eyeballing the age graded results from IM Coz, on the men’s side 65th position in the performance pool is 8:54 and 15th in women’s performance pool is 10:05
Take out roughly 10 age group winners (some may be outside pool), and 75th on the men’s side, and probably 25th on women’s side has a good shot.
From those on the ground in Cozumel, would be good to know where this goes to as this is the biggest slot allocation race for 2026 Kona. It also uses the separate male and female allocations up front and does not mix genders (excellent)
245 female finishers and 1151 male finishers in a race offering 100 KQ.
This is 17.5% women, so with 11+11 AG Div winners that’s 78 slots split 14-64.
Women: Seven female ‘winners’ were in the ‘woulda got in via performance’ pool. So the performance pool ‘offers’ would go down to #21 without roll down: an age-graded time of 10:13 (in a race with a WPro winning time of 8:29, so 120% of that).
Men: Ten male ‘winners’ were in the ‘woulda got in via performance’ pool. So the performance pool ‘offers’ went down to #74 without roll down: an age-graded time of 9:02 (in a race with a MPro winning time of 7:48, so 116% of that).
Hopefully we’ll have someone who was at the awards telling us about the non-acceptance roll downs. Your estimates look close to spot on: maybe a few (5) more on both sexes.
Awards/rolldowns start at 1. I’m in with a women’s performance pool slot, so I can try to keep track of that side of the equation, but may or may not lose track with the men, depending on what order they do this in and when I’m forking over the credit card. We’ll see!
Thank you! My AG was fast, so I was glad to have the performance pool vs the old proportional system. Slot uptake was high-I believe all the AG winners accepted. There ended up being 15 female PP slots for 26 total women’s slots, 74 total men’s. I lost track a bit (they were alternating men/women going through the pool and it was hard to hear once I was in the sign up line), but I think only a couple women didn’t take slots, and my husband said very few men were declining as well. So, it seemed like many targeted this race specifically because of the 100 slots.
The current switched midway through, it was kind of weird-my first 1000 took me over 20 minutes, final 1000 was around 12. Overall, with the short course, I ended up maybe 8ish minutes faster than I’d typically swim non-wetsuit, so it was quick, but not a complete downstream float.
15th in 45-49 was 2 seconds behind your friend in the AG and 75th in the adjusted time and then the 3rd 25-29 AG was another 1 second behind in the adjusted time. wow!
Thanks! I’m not sure entirely, it got a bit hard to hear once I was in line to pay, but my husband and I both thought there were only a couple rolldowns on the women’s side, which would have put it at 24th in the age-graded rankings/17th in the performance pool-7th in 45-49. Men’s side, I entirely lost track, unfortunately! The payment/registration line was a bit of a cluster of freezing laptops.
Thorsten from Tri ratings has the top 4 accepting their slots in both genders. Maybe he is mistaken or they were given exemptions from attending awards.