coaching by tanya

Honoured as one of Canada’s most outstanding National Team Coaches, Olympic medal-winning coach Tanya Dubnicoff began as a World Class athlete herself.  As a sprint cyclist, Tanya represented Canada at 3 Olympic games, won a World Championship title and held the world record in her event.  After Tanya’s retirement as an athlete in 2000, her passion for the sport led her to coaching, where she shared her knowledge and experience with developing athletes by providing them with the tools required to attain success.  Tanya spent the next 13 years building thriving cycling programs in Canada and the United States.

Tanya’s versatility as a coach has seen her connect  with varying age groups and cycling disciplines employing the skills from her decade as the only female coach at the international level at the time.  She has helped athletes achieve success across the spectrum of abilities guiding them to National and World Championships, two Olympic Games where in 2012, Tanya led her program to win a bronze medal in Women’s Team Pursuit for Team Canada at the London Olympics.

Since 2016 Tanya has worked with the Canadian Sports Institute -Calgary cycling program as the Development cycling lead. During her tenure Tanya focussed on creating the DEVO program where athletes aged ten to thirteen years participated in three cycling disciplines  - mountain bike, track and cyclocross – year round.   Each eight week session saw athletes’ self-confidence soar as they increased their skills through strength and conditioning, bike handling, pedalling efficiency in a safe and fun environment.  Tanya led riders to become National Champions in Junior and Elite categories on the track and attaining podium performances in U23 on the road.

Tanya brings a deliberate calm to empower cyclists to achieve success.  Her passionate focus on optimizing performance through targeted planning, deliberate practice and mindfulness, inspires an individual to bring their best self to the sport.  

‘Identify what makes you special and how to lead with purpose;champion your own mission; learn to ask more of yourself and go deeper than before; challenge the fear to create a new possibility’ are some of Tanya’s guiding statements with the end result of breakthrough performances and both internal and external success.