Synergy Sport Collective

About Synergy Sport Collective

Coaching. Community. Longevity.

Synergy Sport Collective is an endurance coaching team in Dubai, founded in October 2024 by head coach Melina Timson-Katchis. Melina coaches triathletes, open water swimmers and runners of every level, face to face in Dubai and online for athletes around the world, from a first super sprint or a first sea swim to full-distance triathlon and 10 km ocean races.

Her coaching brings together sport science, sport psychology and more than thirty years in sport as an athlete, coach and sport developer, and at its heart is the relationship between coach and athlete: a plan built around your life, and someone in your corner on the hard days as well as the good ones.

What started as coaching has become a community. The team rides together, races together in its pink kit and turns out for each other on race day: at the first triathlon of the 2026–27 season it came home with two age-group podiums and a personal best.

What's on

Personal coaching for triathlon, open water swimming and running, in Dubai and online.
Open water and swim coaching, from the pool to 10 km ocean swims.
The Youth Triathlon Academy, a term-based programme for young triathletes.
Team rides and race weekends with the Synergy community.
Training camps in the UAE.

Coaches

Melina Timson-Katchis

Founder and head coach. Melina has spent more than thirty years in sport as an athlete, coach and sport developer, and was already racing triathlon in Cyprus in the 1990s. In 2019, at the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in Nice, she became the first Cypriot woman on that start line, and she has raced more than twenty middle-distance triathlons and several full-distance races, Challenge Roth among them in 2026. She is a strong open water swimmer too: Oceanman 10 km races and the 30 km Ultra Oceanman, with second place in her age group at the Oceanman World Final in Dubai in December 2025 and first in her age group at Oceanman Sharjah that April. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Sport & Exercise Science, an MSc in Sport Science and an MPhil in Sport Psychology, is an IRONMAN U certified coach and holds a Professional Certificate in Person-Centred Counselling. In Nice she joined a Women for Tri panel on bringing more women into triathlon, and in 2025 she shared her triathlon and open water story with schools across Dubai during the Dubai Fitness Challenge. "I love working with people and at the heart of my coaching is the coach-athlete relationship."

Melina Timson-Katchis

Coaching

Personal coaching

Triathlon, open water and running, in Dubai and online

Coaching for every level, from a first super sprint or a first open water swim to full-distance triathlon and 10 km ocean races. Your plan is built around your goals, your week and the rest of your life, and adjusted as you go.

Melina brings sport science and sport psychology to it: how to train, and how to handle the hard days, the missed sessions and the races that do not go to plan. She coaches athletes face to face in Dubai and online for clients worldwide.

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Open water and swim coaching

From the pool deck to 10 km ocean swims

Melina's own background is in swimming: she races Oceanman 10 km events and has finished the 30 km Ultra Oceanman. She coaches technique on the pool deck and prepares swimmers and triathletes for open water, from a first sea swim to Oceanman.

At the Oceanman World Final in Dubai in December 2025, Synergy swimmers came home with age-group podiums and personal bests.

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Youth Triathlon Academy

For young triathletes, led by Melina

A term-based programme that builds the fundamental skills and knowledge young athletes need to grow in the sport, in a safe environment: learning and fine-tuning their swim, bike and run skills, and the triathlon fitness to race local events.

Its three aims are safety, fun and development. Every child has an assessment before registering for the term, and every session is led by Melina. Ask about the next term.

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Team and community

Rides, race weekends and the pink kit

Synergy is a team as much as a coaching service: Friday coffee rides, group rides, race weekends together and team breakfasts. Different goals, different abilities and different backgrounds, brought together by a shared love of challenge and of supporting one another.

The team races across the UAE, from the Grit+Tonic triathlons at Mamzar and the T100 in Dubai to Oceanman and the Open Masters Games, and abroad at races such as Challenge Roth.

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Training camps

Starting the season with purpose

Synergy ran its first UAE training camp in October 2025, at the Oceanic Khorfakkan Resort on the east coast, to start the race season with focused preparation. Camps are announced on Instagram.

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How to start

A conversation with Melina

Message Synergy on Instagram, or use the contact details on this page, and talk through your goals, your experience, your week and the races you have in mind. Melina will suggest the coaching that fits.

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