Career
As of June 2015, Melo is ranked twentieth in the world for the heavyweight one-person dinghy class by the International Sailing Federation. Melo qualified for the Portuguese sailing team in the Star class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by having secured a berth and placing thirteenth from the 2011 ISAF World Championships in Perth, Western Australia. He and his skipper Domingos struggled to mount their spiritual challenge against a field of fifteen other boats throughout the ten-race series, ending them abruptly in the penultimate position out of sixteen with a Netto grade of 108.