Australian David Staley leads the group as technical delegate with Wilfried Klein of Germany appointed the assistant technical delegate.

Staley and Klein have been on the Para World Sailing Committee for a number years, while the latter was also assistant technical delegate for the Paralympic Games at London 2012. 

Both will be present throughout the Rio 2016 Paralympic sailing competition to ensure fairness of racing.

The race management team will be headed by the United States’ Thomas Duggan, who will also be the principal race officer at the 2016 Sailing World Cup in Weymouth and Portland, scheduled to take place in June. 

Great Britain’s John Doerr will chair the international jury having previously held the same role at the 2015 Sailing World Cup in Miami, and will also lead the jury at the Finn Gold Cup in the Italian city of Gaeta in May.

America's John Koopmans will assume the role of chief equipment inspector at the Paralympics having done so at the 2015 Para World Sailing Championships in Melbourne, while Britain’s Susan Parry has been hired as chief classifier.

The appointments were confirmed by the Para World Sailing Committee with the final team set to work in conjunction with Rio 2016 organisers and Brazilian technical officials and volunteers in preparation for the event in September.

The Rio 2016 Paralympic sailing competition is due to take place at the Marina da Glória and will feature the 2.4mR, Sonar and SKUD18.

The Marina da Glória is on Guanabara Bay, which remains littered with rubbish and sewage. 

The state of the water on the Bay, where Olympic sailing competition will be held, has been a constant problem for Brazilian offcials in preparations for the Games and has attracted widespread criticism from the public and sailing’s world governing body.

It was thought to be behind South Korean windsurfer Cho Wonwoo falling ill and Germany’s Erik Heil suffering skin infections during August's Olympic test event.

The Marina da Glória itself has been the subject of scrutiny due to the high levels of pollution and objects floating in the water, despite a vow to use the Games as a catalyst to clean the water being a key part of Rio de Janeiro's successful bid in 2009.

The fleet racing competition format at the Paralympics is scheduled to take place between September 7 and 18.

It will be the last sailing competition to feature in the Paralympic Games until at least 2024 after the sport was controversially dropped from the programme for Tokyo 2020.