Frederico Melo

Frederico Melo
Personal information
Full name Frederico Ricciardi Pinheiro
de Melo
Nationality  Portugal
Born (1987-07-13) 13 July 1987
Azusa, California, United States
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Sailing career
Class(es) Dinghy, keelboat
Club Clube Naval de Cascais[1]
Coach Andy Zawija[1]

Frederico Ricciardi Pinheiro de Melo (born July 13, 1987 in Azusa, California, United States) is a Portuguese sailor, who specialized in heavyweight one-person dinghy (Finn) and two-person keelboat (Star) classes.[1][2] He represented his nation Portugal, along with his partner and three-time Olympian Afonso Domingos, at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and has been training throughout his sailing career for Cascais Naval Club (Portuguese: Clube Naval de Cascais) in his current residence Cascais, under his personal coach Andy Zawija.[1][3] Born and raised in the United States, Melo also held a dual citizenship to compete internationally for his parents' homeland in sailing. 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.[4][5] 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 net grade of 108.[6][7]

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