International Journal of the History of Sport

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of the History of Sport is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Sociohistorical Challenges to the Development of Women’s Football in Poland34
The Big O: The Life and Times of Olsen Filipaina, Pacific Revolution Pioneer11
‘Cheap, Scientific and Free From Danger’: Accounting for the Development of Field Hockey in Aotearoa New Zealand8
A History of World Taekwondo-Approved Competition Uniforms6
The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First Reconsidered The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First reconsidered , edited by David Kirk and Patr6
Introduction: Africa in the Boxing Ring5
Gymnastics in Nineteenth-Century South Africa5
Arnis Under American Colonial Rule: Expanding Sources, Geographical Scope, and Reconstructing Historical Narrative4
‘We Do Not Divide Our Champions According to Color’?: A Failed 1938 All-White Follow-Up Tour of South Africa4
Reading Kristi Yamaguchi: Media, Multiculturalism, and the Double Process of Racialization4
The Emergence and Development of Netball in Jamaica, 1909–19414
How Pure Was Romanian Rugby? Minority, Majority and Extremists in Romanian Interwar Rugby3
Professional Basketball, the ‘Hardship Case’ and the ‘Culture of Poverty’: The Social Construction of Black Basketball Players from Spencer Haywood to Moses Malone, 1969–19743
‘Dis Football Sef … Na Wahala’: A Continental Contest That Troubled a Nation3
Image of ‘Sino-Western Essence’ in the Press: On the ‘Dual-Track’ Physical Training System of Chin Woo Athletic Federation3
Making Public the History of Non-Racial Sport in South Africa3
A History of the British Sporting Journalist, c.1850-1939 James Catton, Sports Reporter3
Physical Culture and Batllismo: Resignifying Amateurism in the Uruguayan Context3
‘Athletes for Peace’? From the Quest to Hold the Mavericks Accountable to a Second American Rebel Tour of South Africa3
The Olympic Movement and Safeguarding Athletes: Exploring South Korea’s Journey to Protect Athletes3
Placard Carriers and Flag Bearers: Gender Representation in the Summer Olympics’ Parade of Nations (1908–2021)3
The Polish Olympic Committee’s Subjection to the Communist Authorities in the Stalinist Period: An Inside Story3
County Club Finances and the Decline of Amateur Cricketers in England2
Sustainable Local Operation of Chin Woo Athletic Association in Singapore and Malaysia2
Debates on Naturalized Athletes in Turkish Politics, 1986–2022: A Part of National Pride or Discontent?2
A Bouncing Echo of Medieval Heydays? The Legacy of Pärk ( Jeu de Paume ) in Gotland2
A Mutual Dependency: Postcolonial Relations between the French Athletics Federation and French-Speaking African Athletics Federations (1956–1969)2
Between Purity and Pragmatism: The Politics of Purebred Breeding and Racing of the Orlov Trotter in Imperial Russia, 1880–19152
Women’s Artistic Gymnastics: Socio-Cultural Perspectives2
From Motions to Missions: Interrogating Sport Organization Annual Reports as Works of Sport Memory2
Romanian Women’s Participation in Recreation and Sporting Activities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century2
Forging a Link between Competitive Gaming, Sport and the Olympics: History and New Developments2
‘A Democracy That Will Know Not the Differences of Race’: American ‘Globetrotting’ in South Africa from the 1920s through the 1980s in Perspective2
Naming Practices in Cameroonian Football Clubs: Historical Shifts and Sociocultural Meanings from 1920 to 20202
Introduction: Sport-Gender Orthodoxy and Muscular Christian Values2
Cooperation of Sports Communities with the Government Apparatus in Poland in the Years 1945–19892
The Girl with the Torch: The Life Story of Gymnast Karin Lindberg Lindén2
Football and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Argentina: La Nuestra2
Football, Propaganda and International Relations under Francoism: The 1960 and 1964 European Nations Cup and Their Impact on the International Press2
Development of Japanese Martial Arts in Hungarian Sport Culture2
Undoing Maradona: Subalterns of Sport for Development2
Book Reviews: A Specificity of Historical Practice2
The Political and Social Determinants of Football Hooliganism in Central Europe in the Interwar Period1
‘Pommel Horse Rebels and Apartheid’s Friends’ – American Gymnasts and the International Anti-Apartheid Sports Boycott Against South Africa, 1970–19901
Tunnel and Crossing: The Future Road of the Olympics under Tokyo 2020 ‘+1’1
Living Football, Navigating Politics: Salah Assad’s Life Story in Post-Colonial and Post-Conflict Algeria1
Salvation on the Gridiron: Fundamentalism, Football, and Christian Manhood at Wheaton College, 1900–19491
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sport: Sporting Literacy, Attenuated Agency, and Survivance1
Disputed Frontiers: Open Water Crossings in the River Plate, 1918–19241
Diplomatic Heavyweights: Sumō Wrestlers and Japan-China Relations in the Early 1970s1
Exploring Sport’s Role in Mitigating Conflicts Gulf Cup as a Case Study1
Sumiyuki Kotani, the Kodokan Emissary to Brazil1
Commodifying Race: The Portrayal of Bernardo Mikixi, an Angolan Mixed Martial Artist, in the Extreme Fighting Championship’s Advertising Materials in South Africa, 2009–20151
Sport and Social Difference in Vienna around 1900: On the Historical Significance of Otto Herschmann1
The Work of Georges Demenÿ in Brazilian Periodical Press: Themes Debated, 1890 − 19491
On the Kicking Techniques of Pankration1
Wisdom from the Wickets: Cricket Virtues and Colonial Governance in Lord Harris’ Bombay1
Willy Richard Frantz Seewald (1900–1929): The Brazilian Sportsman in the 1924 Olympic Games1
‘In Case of Dispute, the French Text is to be Used’: A History of the Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus (AIACR), 1904–19221
From Cultural Import to Flourishing Sport: A Comprehensive History of DanceSport in China (1864–2023)1
Sports in South America: A History1
A Contested Victory: Liberal Reformism and Women’s Physical Culture in Colombia, 1930–19461
Sports Facility Development and Politics in Budapest since 19451
Distance Education for the Public during Turkey’s Early Republican Period: Physical Education Lessons on Radio1
Pathway in Developing Sport Ecosystem in Small States1
Olympic Truce during the Nagano Olympics: Between Diplomacy and Public Diplomacy of the International Olympic Committee1
Analysis of the Cancellation of the 2019 East Asian Youth Games in Taiwan1
‘Be Curious, Not Judgmental’: Advice to Coaches, Ethnographers and Beginners Everywhere1
The Sporting Battalion Athletes in the Defence of Madrid During the Spanish Civil War 11
‘It’s a Policy Matter, Not a Racial Matter’: Athlete Activism and Symbiotic Struggles against Apartheid in US Track and Field of the Early 1970s1
Breaking New Ground: A Historical Exploration of Women’s Cricket in India, 1973–19911
From Back Streets to Olympic Stage: The Development of Breaking and Skateboarding in South Korea1
Sports Press as a Soft Power Tool in the Polish-German Border Plebiscite of 19211
The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan1
Asia Pride Games (The Straits Games): Past, Present, and Future1
Regulating, Controlling and Using New Financial Inflows: The Introduction of a Modern Licensing Scheme in Swiss Professional Football (1992–2010)1
Introduction1
Sister Rose Ann Fleming: An Unlikely Point Guard and Gender-Holistic Servant-Leader1
An Evaluation of Turkish Wrestling History during the Ottoman Empire1
Transforming Scottish Basketball: Exploring the Student Impact, 1890s–1930s1
Olympic Philately: Reading the 1896 Athens Olympics from Postage Stamps1
The Origin and Significance of the Korean Boy Scout Movement during the Japanese Occupation1
Reading Le Jingyi’s Back: The Creation and Construction of the Sino-Steroid Spectre in the Western Media in the Post–Cold War Era1
Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa1
Eastern Beauties: The Role of Taiwanese Corporate Women’s Basketball Teams in Cold War Cultural Diplomacy1
‘The Cheering Was Loud and Long’: Practical Feminism and the England Women’s Hockey Tour of Australia in 19271
Soccer and Society in Dublin: A History of Association Football in Ireland’s Capital1
A Historical Narrative of High School Athletics Amongst ‘Coloured’ Communities in Cape Town, South Africa, with Special Reference to the Western Province Senior Schools Sports Union, 1956-19721
Technology and Its Role in Making Dinghy Sailing More Accessible: Innovation Networks in the USA, United Kingdom and France0
Indigenous Public History: Cherbourg’s Marching Girls0
Women’s Competitive Sport in Iran: Unravelling Four Decades of Discursive Evolution, 1979–20200
Priests, Bearers, Schoolboys, Sailors: Pioneering Indian Field Hockey Players from Bengal in the 1890s0
The Forty-Three Year History of Taipei Baseball Stadium, 1957–20000
Historicizing Machoism in Swedish Ice Hockey0
Modern Visions of Physical Education: The Dissemination and Institutionalization of Polish Enlightenment Publications0
Transnational Mediation of Sports: Attention and Verbal Framing of Men’s Handball Teams and Athletes on Danish, German, and Romanian Online Sports News Sites0
Introduction0
Invention, Interpretation, and Diffusion: A Transnational Framework for the Development of Netball, 1895–19260
Gladiatoren: Die Wirklichkeit hinter der Legende (Gladiators: The reality behind the legend)0
The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and Inter-Asian Connections in South Korea0
Cackyhander: Writing about Cricket, Sports History and the Olympic Games0
‘Get Lost to Your Island’: Hamilton Richardson and the (Re)Presentation of Belonging in Dutch Baseball, 1962–19910
Through on Goal: Soft Power, Sporting Sovereignty and the History of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) Recognition of Non-Sovereign, Subnational0
‘Striking the Mighty Anvil Known as “Propaganda”’: Journalism and the Institutionalization of Sport in Spain, 1890–19200
Framing Expertise: R. Alan Eagleson and the Toronto Globe and Mail , 1967–19940
Football, Entertainment, and Business: Hans Gamper and KS Cracovia’s 1923 Tour of Spain0
Introduction: Public Sport History and Community Sport0
National Mythscapes and Popular New Zealand Rugby Histories: Representing the 1986 Cavaliers0
Ling’s Gymnastics Method in Brazil: ‘A Work of Slow Infiltration’0
The Institutional Development of the Philippine Olympic Movement and the Current Rise of Its Olympic Athletes0
Archaeology of Historic Football Grounds: A Case Study of the 19 May Stadium in Turkey0
Summit Diplomacy: US-Soviet Mountaineering Exchanges, 1974–19890
The Sportization of Rowing and Swimming in the Tietê River (São Paulo, Brazil, 1899–1949)0
A New Dawn: The Rise of Women’s Hockey Leagues and the Emergence and Demise of the English Ladies Hockey Leagues Association, 1910–19600
‘We Didn’t Kill Any Babies’: The 1988 Rebel Track and Field Tour of South Africa0
‘Is Hockey Moving with the Times?’ Amateurism, the All England Women’s Hockey Association and Field Hockey at the Olympic Games, 1972–19960
Pucks, Politics, and Parochialism: The Collapse of the Boston Bruins’ 1981 Move to Salem, New Hampshire0
Sports Diplomacy Surrounding the IOC’s Response to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Between Political Neutrality and Peace Promotion0
Athletic Success, Authenticity, and National Identity in Singapore: Representing the Little Red Dot0
The Heroism of the Long-Distance Runner: Janusz Kusociński and His Times as Portrayed in Light of His Memoirs From Palant to the Olympics0
Mass Choreography in Olympic Ceremonies: The Case of Turin 20060
International Sport Success in a Non-Sovereign Nation: The Case of Judo in Scotland0
German-Brazilian Women in Turnen at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century0
The Founder of the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) Choi Hong Hi: An Exploration of Fiction and Fact0
‘Complete Anglers’ in Persia: On the Genesis of the Art of Angling in the ‘Valley of Happiness’0
Sport and Authoritarianism in Latin America: An Introduction0
Local, National and Global Histories of Field Hockey: An Overview0
Transnational Athletes – Historical Perspectives0
Physical Culture and the Process of Human Improvement in Post-Revolutionary Russia0
The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics0
The History of Outdoor Learning in Canada0
Final Score: The Sports Chosen for Broadcast on the BBC’s Grandstand0
A Seemingly Endless Debate? The Establishment of Golf Courses in Taiwan0
The Second Women’s Olympic Games, Gothenburg, 19260
The Sport Hero Concept in Czechoslovakia: The Phenomenon of Emil Zátopek, 1948–19560
Turkey’s First Female Auto Racing Champion: Samiye Cahit Morkaya0
Examination of the Sportification Process of Aerobic and Its Competitive History0
22 Players Run After the Ball for 90 Minutes, and in the End England Wins. German Views of the 1935 and 1938 Germany–England Football Matches0
‘Know the Game—Boxing’: Boxing in Colonial Kenya, 1895–19630
Windsurfing’s Rapid Global Diffusion: The Evolution of a 1970s Technology-First Sport0
An Olympic Fairytale: The Zimbabwean Women’s Field Hockey Victory at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games0
Historical Transformations of the Palestinian Civil Society: The Case of Sports Clubs in the West Bank0
‘Player as a Job’, Beyond Elitism: A Critical Look at the History of Professional Athlete Development in South Korea0
Football and Black Identity: Lifestyle Construction in A Voz da Raça in São Paulo, Brazil, in 19330
Populism and Professionalism in Brazilian Football during Getulio Vargas’s Regime (1930–1945)0
‘I Consider Myself a Political Prisoner’: The Long and Strange Journeys of American Rebels Enmeshed in Ironies of the Athletes’ Rights Crusade0
Playing with the Boycott: Israel-South Africa Sports Ties in the Apartheid Era*0
‘Winners, Regardless’?: Racial Politics, Civil Rights Struggles, and the 1950 Track and Field Tour of South Africa0
Big Wave Surfing: From the Local to the Global Stage of Surfing, or Vice Versa?0
Visualising Sport: ‘Visual Turns’, Visual Texts, Visual Culture0
Festive Federalism: Race, Nation, and Neoliberal Aesthetics at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games0
From Stroke to Stoke: The Multiple Sporting Legacies of the Southern California Home Swimming Pool0
‘Cultivating Character’: The Association of British Athleticism with the Educational Value of Japanese Football in Shūkyū Monthly Magazine (1931–41)0
A Study on the Approach of Rule of Law in the International Sports Autonomy, by Li Zhi, Beijing, Higher Education Press, 2019, 291 pp., ¥69 (Paperback), ISBN 9787040515121 (in Chinese)0
Local, National and Global Histories of Netball: An Overview0
The History of Sport in Brazil in the Global Context: Analysis of Publications in The International Journal of the History of Sport0
The So-Called ‘First’ Korean Taekwondo School: The Ch’ŏngdo Kwan0
Correction0
C. Gärtner, the Olympic Circus, and the Origins of Equestrianism in the Grand Duchy of Posen0
The Double Creation of the International Fencing Federation in 1905 and 1913: A History of the Establishment of a ‘Gentlemen’s Agreement’ in International Fencing from the French Point of View0
Through the Lens of the Trainer-Masseurs: Australia’s Incongruous Engagement with the Olympic Amateur Ethos0
A Game Taken Seriously: The Foundations of Yorkshire’s Cricketing Power0
Institutional Change in the Governance of Chinese Football: The Era of ‘Top-Level Design’ Under the Leadership of Xi Jinping0
Chadwick: A Man of Many Parts0
No Foreign Game: Association Football and the Making of Irish Identities0
Sports, Human Rights and Diplomacy: Argentine ‘Rebel’ Rugby Tours to South Africa in the 1980s0
Bear Bryant, Sam Cunningham and Popular Memory of the Civil Rights Movement0
Tracing Two South Korean Olympic Pathways: Symbols, Conflicts, and Integration through Global Sports Events0
The Legacy of Sports Nationalism in South Korean Sport0
Sports Research and Military Performance: The Age and Gender of Soldiers and Officers in the Swedish Military0
An Alternative Model for International Competition: The First Women’s World Field Hockey Tournament, Copenhagen 19330
The North China Ice Games during the Period of the Republic of China0
A ‘Rebel’ on the Run: Kenyan Gambles on Intercollegiate Athletics, Apartheid Sport, and US Road Racing of the 1980s – The Case of Samson Obwocha0
The Failed Decolonization of Egyptian Basketball, 1920–19520
Modernization Through Leisure and Sports: The Case of Sümerbank Industrial Campuses in Turkey0
‘God Bless Joan Payson’: The Surprising Coverage of the First Woman to Buy a Sports Team0
Building the Landscape of Sports Diplomacy: R. William Jones Cup Intercontinental Basketball Tournament on Formosa Island in the Cold War Era0
Who Makes Good Sports Shows?: The First Velodrome Managers in France at the End of the Nineteenth Century0
Olympic Games and Adventure Sports: The Inclusion of Surfing in the Tokyo 2020 edition0
‘We are Grateful for the Opportunity to Act as Ambassadors for Our Club and Our Country’: Sporting Hospitality during the Northern Ireland Conflict0
Sex Testing in Volleyball0
Baseball in the Atacama Desert: From Elitist Sport to Popular Identity in Tocopilla, Chile (1915–1971)0
The 1968 Olympic Games: Tourism as Part of Nation Branding in Mexico0
Football’s Forgotten Years: Reclaiming the AFL Competition’s Earliest Era – 1870 to 18960
From Funerals to Flares: Europeanisation of Finnish Football Supporter Culture0
The Beginnings of the International Ice Hockey Federation0
Beautiful Bridesmaides Dressed in Oranje. The Unfulfilled Glory of Dutch Football0
Marion Jackson’s Conflicted Sacrifice: The Atlanta Daily World’s Black Southern Sportswriter on the Tension between Integration and HBCU Sport0
The Premier and China’s Pursuit of the Olympics0
Remembering Brazil @Mexico1970: Social Media & Collective Memory Making in Times of COVID-190
From Balls and Hoops to Coconuts and Tambourines: Protagonisms and Paradoxes of European Coach Ilona Peuker on Brazilian Floors0
Field Hockey in China: An Exploration of Socioeconomic and Political Changes, 1900–20240
Daciada and Winter Sports in Romania, 1976–19890
The Bumpy Road to World Athletics: Foundation, People, Policies0
Sports and Lao-Viet Contact and Conflict in the 1930s0
Tracing the Historical Contours of Black Muscular Christianity and American Sport0
Chamonix 1924: The First Winter Olympics0
Römische Gladiatorenbilder: Studien zu den Gladiatorenreliefs der späten Republik und der Kaiserzeit aus Italien0
Ladies and Lords: A History of Women’s Cricket in Britain0
A Runner’s Journey0
Health, Sports, and Authoritarianism in Mexico’s Educational Project, 1930–19400
Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America’s Anti-Apartheid Movement0
Strategic Role of Taiwanese Acrobatics in the Cultural Diplomacy of the Republic of China since the Cold War0
The Financial Impact of World Series Cricket on Australia’s State Cricket Associations, 1974–19820
Sports Diplomacy and Propaganda in Turkish Foreign Policy in the Early Republican Period0
How You Play the Game: Judaism, Hellenism, and Athletics in Philo’s De Agricultura0
Educating the Elite in an Egalitarian Context: The Emergence of Sport Schools for Elite Talents in Sweden in the 1970s0
Sport or Spectacle? The Harlem Globetrotters’ 1955 Visit to Israel0
‘Cricket is Perfectly Suited to the Chinese People’: The Contemporary Development of Chinese Cricket0
Olympic Infighting: An Exploration of Power Games between Leaders of International Sport Federations and the International Olympic Committee0
Nadia și Securitatea [Nadia and the Securitate]0
Umpires, Referees, Judges and Stewards: Changing Modes of Judgment and Arbitration in English Sport c.1600–c.19000
On the Origins of the Young Men’s Catholic Association as a Response to the Protestant Recreation Ethic in the United States, 1854–19090
The Pinochet’s Team. The Soccer National Team and the Coup D’état of September 11, 19730
Ernest Wilimowski – Polish and German National Team Player with an Unspecified Nationality0
The Attempted Grobalization of Parkour by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique0
Dead or Alive: How Amateurism Shaped Marathons in Norway, 1896–19060
Politics in Sport Facility Development in Budapest, 1863–19450
Bold Ambitions, Austere Realities: On the Unfulfilled Plans for the Warsaw Olympic Games0
Estranged: Notes on the Historical Development of the Relationship between Players and Manufacturers of Ice Hockey Equipment in Canada0
From Rikidôzan to the Roku Player: The Evolution of Japanese Television and Puroresu0
Empire at Play: The United States’ Cultural Influence on Nicaragua’s National Sports’ Identity0
The (Not So) United Soccer of Atlanta: An Early History of Class Distinction and Racial Separatism in Organized Youth Soccer0
‘A Powerful Sporting Tradition among Canadian Basilians’: Early Twentieth-Century Catholic Priest-Coaches at St Michael’s College0
‘We Have No Bamboo Curtain’: Sports Diplomacy and China’s Techniques of Reshaping Southeast Asian Perception in the Second Half of the 1950s0
Sport History and AI: Book Reviews Revisited0
Building European Fraternity Through Gymnastics: The Establishment of the Bureau Des Fédérations Européennes de Gymnastiques, 1863–19130
On the Hand-Strike Techniques of Ancient Hellenic Boxing and Pankration0
El deporte en la Grecia antigua: aspectos sociopolíticos y culturales (Sport in Ancient Greece: socio-political and cultural aspects)0
Netball in Zimbabwe: Towards a Social History0
The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia: Sport, Nationalism and the State0
Dawn of the War on Steroids0
‘A Hero Who Made This Country Proud’: Boxing, Nation, and the Politics of Sport in Kenya, ca 1950–19800
Excavating the Ancestry of ‘Globetrotting’: New Perspectives on the Intersection of Racial Politics, Civil Rights Struggles and anti-Apartheid Crusades in US Track and Field from the 1920s through the0
Channelling Soft Power: The Qatar 2022 World Cup, Migrant Workers, and International Image0
National Mourning: The First Norwegian Sports Boycott in 19050
Aerobics Made in Poland: Women’s Mass Leisure Activity in the Socialist State, 1983–19890
‘Unsportsmanlike Behaviour’: Okigwe Football League and Inter-Community Rivalries in Southeastern Nigeria, 1949–19510
Entrepreneurial Goals: Development and Africapitalism in Ghanaian Soccer Academies0
Introduction0
‘Who Walked against Time’: Nineteenth Century Intersections of Pedestrianism and Medicine0
Negotiating the Space between East and West: Sport and Gender Politics in Swiss Women’s Artistic Gymnastics in the Cold War Era0
Basketball Returns Home: The Diffusion and Translocation of Basketball to Scotland0
Counterpunch: The Cultural Battles Over Heavyweight Prizefighting in the American West0
Taiwan’s Olympic Hero: The Legend of Asian Iron Man, C. K. Yang0
The Best Professionals in Army and Miliţia Were the Football Players: Shamateurism in Romanian Football during the ‘Golden Epoch’0
Ad Santel is Coming to Town: The 1921 Yasukuni Shrine ‘MMA Fights’ Between Catch Wrestling and Kōdōkan Judo0
Sport and History: Continuity and Change. Local Stories to Explain Global History0
The Sporting Club Maccabi de Paris in the Interwar Period (1924–1939): The Path of a Zionist Club0
Dongdaemun Stadium Memorial, Seoul: The Ambiguous Status of a South Korean Sports Heritage0
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