South African women's age-group triathlon now has its own complete home on SATriHub — rankings, national records, and every athlete profile carrying its own page, separate from the men's division rather than folded into one mixed list that never made the comparison fair to begin with.
Two different questions, two different leaders
The all-time full-distance record belongs to Kirsten Schut, whose 9:13:48 at IRONMAN Cozumel in 2022 is still the fastest finish by a South African woman in the database.
But the current 18-month rankings — the same rolling-window methodology now driving the men's leaderboard — tell a different story. Schut's Cozumel swim has aged out of that window, and Louise Bentley now leads the women's overall standings on 9:58:22 from IRONMAN South Africa, ahead of Chantel Coetzer (10:11:33, Copenhagen) and Amy Van Zuydam (10:13:21, Tallinn).
That gap between "fastest ever" and "fastest lately" isn't a contradiction — it's the whole point of running both. A records book should hold onto history. A rankings page should tell you who's actually racing well this season.
What's different, division by division
Every ranked page on the site now has a Men/Women toggle, and it does more than swap a color scheme. Rankings, records, the recent-PB ticker, even the athlete's own profile page — all of it is scoped entirely to that division. An athlete's stats are compared only against the field they're actually competing in.
The one deliberate exception is the Athletes directory, which still lists everyone together — useful when you're searching for a specific name and don't want to guess which division view you're in first.
What's next
With the women's division fully wired into rankings, records and age-group standings, the methodology work ahead — the age-graded AGI system already flagged for the men's side — applies equally to both from here on. Nothing about how it develops will be men's-first.