The five selected sailors will continue their preparations for London 2012 over the coming months.Sailors Niki Birrell and Alex Rickham will be racing in the two-person Skud-18 category, while John Robertson, Hannah Stodel and Stephen Thomas will be competing in their third consecutive Games in the Sonar crew.
Great Britain has yet to win a Paralympic Sailing medal but the selected athletes will be looking to sail away with success in the medal tables at Weymouth and Portland next summer.
Chief Executive of the BPA Tim Hollingsworth said: 'This is a very exciting moment in the build-up to London: the selection of the first athletes who will represent this country in 2012 really brings it home that the Games are just around the corner.
'I hope the nation will join me in congratulating them now and supporting them in a year’s time on the water at Weymouth and Portland.'
Last month Keri-Anne Payne became the first British athlete to qualify for the London 2012 Olympic Games after she won the 10km open water event at the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai.
