Israel’s Nino Shmueli, who was the ISAF’s principal race officer at the 2014 World Championships in Santander, Spain and the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Qingdao, China, will lead the race management team for the event in the Brazilian city.

Vice-chairman of the Olympic Jury at the London 2012 Games Bernard Bonneau of France will chair the international jury at Rio 2016, while Dimitris Dimou of Greece will head up the ISAF equipment inspection team.

The appointed members will now begin their final preparations ahead of next year’s Games, with sailing competitions scheduled for August 8 to 18, alongside Brazilian national technical officials and volunteers.

The announcement comes after an extensive period of assessment and monitoring of the officials, particularly at the 2014 World Championships and again at the recent sailing test event, held in August.

Pollution worries came to the fore once again during the test event, with concerns over rubbish remaining on the course at Guanabara Bay as well as a perceived lack of water quality monitoring from the Rio authorities.

Rio 2016, the International Olympic Committee and sailing authorities, including the ISAF, were then accused of "not caring about athletes" by a prominent blogger as another sailor complained of falling ill after competing in the event.

Germany's 49er class competitor Erik Heil, who finished third with team-mate Thomas Ploessel, revealed he was told by a hospital in Berlin that he had been infected by multi-resistant germs as result of his participation on the polluted waters.

The current state of Guanabara Bay has been one of the main issues for Rio 2016 in the lead-up to the Games, the first to ever be held in South America, and has led to calls for the ISAF to switch location of sailing events.

Chief executive Peter Sowrey did say the event could be moved further out into the Atlantic in order to ensure cleaner water, but subsequent messages have been more supportive, with the latest statement expressing confidence the venue "will be ready to host 380 sailors during the Olympic Sailing Competition in one year's time".

A full list of the race officials can be viewed here.

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