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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Between Institutionalization and De-Institutionalization: Lifecycles of Sports Clubs in Israel23
Transnational Mediation of Sports: Attention and Verbal Framing of Men’s Handball Teams and Athletes on Danish, German, and Romanian Online Sports News Sites14
Wisdom from the Wickets: Cricket Virtues and Colonial Governance in Lord Harris’ Bombay11
The Premier and China’s Pursuit of the Olympics10
More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan8
Taiwan’s Olympic Hero: The Legend of Asian Iron Man, C. K. Yang7
Global Sports Fandom in South Korea: American Major League Baseball and Its Fans in the Online Community, by Younghan Cho6
A History of Chinese Martial Arts6
Nation, City, Arena: Sports Events, Nation Building and City Politics in Indonesia6
Japan through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics6
Making Public the History of Non-Racial Sport in South Africa6
A Futile Contestation for Olympic Power: The Case of Roberto G. Peper’s Election to the International Olympic Committee5
Fit for America: Major John L. Griffith and the Quest for Athletics and Fitness5
The Athletes’ Voice and a Feminist Ethics of Care: The Russian Doping Scandal at the 2016 Olympic Games4
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sport: Sporting Literacy, Attenuated Agency, and Survivance4
‘Complete Anglers’ in Persia: On the Genesis of the Art of Angling in the ‘Valley of Happiness’3
The Membership Composition of the Athletes’ Commission of the International Olympic Committee: Between Appointments and Elections, 1981–20003
‘Cheap, Scientific and Free From Danger’: Accounting for the Development of Field Hockey in Aotearoa New Zealand3
‘We Have Given Birth to a Very Busty Infant’: Post-War Origins of Sports Medicine in New Zealand3
Strategic Role of Taiwanese Acrobatics in the Cultural Diplomacy of the Republic of China since the Cold War3
Educating the Elite in an Egalitarian Context: The Emergence of Sport Schools for Elite Talents in Sweden in the 1970s3
Playing with the Boycott: Israel-South Africa Sports Ties in the Apartheid Era*3
A Sporting Nation: Creating Sámi Identity through Sport3
The Sociohistorical Challenges to the Development of Women’s Football in Poland2
A Tale of Two Medals: The USA, Olympic Ice Hockey and Popular American Views of Détente (1972) and Renewed Cold War (1980)2
Walking through the Dark: FC Barcelona and the Forced Closure of 19252
Distance Education for the Public during Turkey’s Early Republican Period: Physical Education Lessons on Radio2
Racialized Marketing in the Athletic Apparel Industry: The Convergence of Sneaker Promotion and Black Culture in the United States2
The Big O: The Life and Times of Olsen Filipaina, Pacific Revolution Pioneer2
Australia’s Game: The History of Australian Football2
The Emergence and Development of Netball in Jamaica, 1909–19412
El deporte en la Grecia antigua: aspectos sociopolíticos y culturales (Sport in Ancient Greece: socio-political and cultural aspects)2
Festive Federalism: Race, Nation, and Neoliberal Aesthetics at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games2
The Bumpy Road to World Athletics: Foundation, People, Policies2
‘I Consider Myself a Political Prisoner’: The Long and Strange Journeys of American Rebels Enmeshed in Ironies of the Athletes’ Rights Crusade2
‘Athletes for Peace’? From the Quest to Hold the Mavericks Accountable to a Second American Rebel Tour of South Africa2
The Nationalization of Algerian Football following Independence, 1962–19822
On the Origins of the Young Men’s Catholic Association as a Response to the Protestant Recreation Ethic in the United States, 1854–19092
The Uruguayan Civic-Military Dictatorship and Football: Authoritarianism, Resistance and Mediations (1973–1980)2
An Alternative Model for International Competition: The First Women’s World Field Hockey Tournament, Copenhagen 19332
Introduction2
Building European Fraternity Through Gymnastics: The Establishment of the Bureau Des Fédérations Européennes de Gymnastiques, 1863–19132
Out of Apartheid’s (Racial) Corner: One Man’s Journey from Bare-Fists to Bible-Puncher2
Wentworth: The Beautiful Game and the Making of Place2
‘We Do Not Divide Our Champions According to Color’?: A Failed 1938 All-White Follow-Up Tour of South Africa2
Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America’s Anti-Apartheid Movement2
The (Not So) United Soccer of Atlanta: An Early History of Class Distinction and Racial Separatism in Organized Youth Soccer2
Developing Winning Ways for Women’s Sport: New Zealand’s National Netball Team2
A Runner’s Journey2
The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First Reconsidered The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First reconsidered , edited by David Kirk and Patr1
Undoing Maradona: Subalterns of Sport for Development1
How Pure Was Romanian Rugby? Minority, Majority and Extremists in Romanian Interwar Rugby1
Olympic Truce during the Nagano Olympics: Between Diplomacy and Public Diplomacy of the International Olympic Committee1
Sports and Recreation in the Modern Industrial Campuses of the Early Republican Turkey (1923–1945)1
Chamonix 1924: The First Winter Olympics1
Tracing Two South Korean Olympic Pathways: Symbols, Conflicts, and Integration through Global Sports Events1
What Factors Determine the Success or Failure of ‘Cross-Border’ Career Development of Chinese Retired Olympic Champions? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis1
Sister Rose Ann Fleming: An Unlikely Point Guard and Gender-Holistic Servant-Leader1
Archaeology of Historic Football Grounds: A Case Study of the 19 May Stadium in Turkey1
From Stroke to Stoke: The Multiple Sporting Legacies of the Southern California Home Swimming Pool1
A History of the British Sporting Journalist, c.1850-1939 James Catton, Sports Reporter1
Correction1
Image of ‘Sino-Western Essence’ in the Press: On the ‘Dual-Track’ Physical Training System of Chin Woo Athletic Federation1
Dawn of the War on Steroids1
Popularization of Physical Culture and Tourism in the Grand Duchy of Posen: A Case Study of the Tygodnik Poznański (Posen Weekly) Magazine1
Correction1
Manchester City Women: An Oral History1
‘God Bless Joan Payson’: The Surprising Coverage of the First Woman to Buy a Sports Team1
The Diplomatic Turn: The New Relationship between Sport and Politics1
Recorde: Revista de História do Esporte – An Overview of Its Publications (2008–2020)1
Edward Thring’s Theory, Practice and Legacy: Physical Education in Britain since 18001
Sports, the Cold War, and Anti-Communism in the Press: A History of the Brazilian Men’s Basketball World Championship Titles (1959 and 1963)1
The History of Outdoor Learning in Canada1
The Sporting Club Maccabi de Paris in the Interwar Period (1924–1939): The Path of a Zionist Club1
Sport or Spectacle? The Harlem Globetrotters’ 1955 Visit to Israel1
The World Cup Chronicles: 31 Days That Rocked Brazil1
Sport for All in Brazil in the 1970s: The Institutionalisation of a Government Policy for Mass Sport1
¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Laagues/En los barrios y las grandes ligas1
Tunnel and Crossing: The Future Road of the Olympics under Tokyo 2020 ‘+1’1
More of the Kangaroo: 150 Years of Australian Football in Queensland – 1866 to 20161
The Olympic Movement and Safeguarding Athletes: Exploring South Korea’s Journey to Protect Athletes1
Framing Expertise: R. Alan Eagleson and the Toronto Globe and Mail , 1967–19941
The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics1
Traditional and Modern Sports in the Forging of Respectability in Nineteenth-Century Spain1
Sport, Ideology and Nation-Building in the Early Years of the People’s Republic of China1
A History of World Taekwondo-Approved Competition Uniforms1
Muscles in the Movies: Perfecting the Art of Illusion1
Historical Overview: Playable Female Athlete Characters in Sport Simulation Videogames1
Football and Black Identity: Lifestyle Construction in A Voz da Raça in São Paulo, Brazil, in 19331
Ancient Physical Culture in Polish-Language Literature of the Enlightenment1
The Early Globalization Process of Taekwondo, from the 1950s to 19711
Evolution of Professional Football Management in the People’s Republic of China from 1992 to 20161
A ‘Rebel’ on the Run: Kenyan Gambles on Intercollegiate Athletics, Apartheid Sport, and US Road Racing of the 1980s – The Case of Samson Obwocha1
Historical Transformations of the Palestinian Civil Society: The Case of Sports Clubs in the West Bank1
Ankō Itosu: The Man, the Master, the Myth, Biography of a Legend1
Römische Gladiatorenbilder: Studien zu den Gladiatorenreliefs der späten Republik und der Kaiserzeit aus Italien1
Identifying Contextual Factors That Informed Planning and System Development for School-Based Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Education: A Realist Evaluation1
Remembering Brazil @Mexico1970: Social Media & Collective Memory Making in Times of COVID-191
The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and Inter-Asian Connections in South Korea1
New York Sports: Glamour and Grit in the Empire City1
Sports and Lao-Viet Contact and Conflict in the 1930s1
Chadwick: A Man of Many Parts1
Dongdaemun Stadium Memorial, Seoul: The Ambiguous Status of a South Korean Sports Heritage1
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 Matches1
We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality1
Aerobics Made in Poland: Women’s Mass Leisure Activity in the Socialist State, 1983–19891
Gladiators: 4th-1st Centuries BC1
Priests, Bearers, Schoolboys, Sailors: Pioneering Indian Field Hockey Players from Bengal in the 1890s1
‘The Cheering Was Loud and Long’: Practical Feminism and the England Women’s Hockey Tour of Australia in 19271
Six Minutes in Berlin. Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics1
Athletes in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945–19920
Olympic Infighting: An Exploration of Power Games between Leaders of International Sport Federations and the International Olympic Committee0
Transactionality, Opportunism and the Third Generation’s Emotional Patriotism. Deservingness and Transnational Football Players in the Polish National Team0
Summit Diplomacy: US-Soviet Mountaineering Exchanges, 1974–19890
The Girl with the Torch: The Life Story of Gymnast Karin Lindberg Lindén0
The Long Economic Thread: Two Millennia of Commercialism and Sport0
Umpires, Referees, Judges and Stewards: Changing Modes of Judgment and Arbitration in English Sport c.1600–c.19000
Football’s Forgotten Years: Reclaiming the AFL Competition’s Earliest Era – 1870 to 18960
The Impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on China and the Olympic Movement: The Legacy0
C. Gärtner, the Olympic Circus, and the Origins of Equestrianism in the Grand Duchy of Posen0
Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa0
‘In the Interest of Reporting the Facts, and Not the Fiction, of South African Sport’: Race, Netball, and the Struggle for Social Justice in 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
The Aborted Project for the European Games in the 1960s and 1970s0
Non-Racial Sport in South Africa: A Documentary Analysis of the Struggle for International Recognition, 1946–19710
Tracing the Historical Contours of Black Muscular Christianity and American Sport0
Politicizing the Playing Field: Legacies of the Campeonatos Evita in Post-Peronist Argentina0
Historical Review of Professional Football Migration Trends from Uganda in the Era of Liberalized Sport Labour Migration, 1964-20220
Sport, Politics, and Society in the Middle East, Edited by Danyel Reiche and Tamir Sorek0
Sport in the Service of Propaganda: Social and Political Conditions of Sport in Rural Poland, 1945–19560
From Motions to Missions: Interrogating Sport Organization Annual Reports as Works of Sport Memory0
The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia: Sport, Nationalism and the State0
Reading Le Jingyi’s Back: The Creation and Construction of the Sino-Steroid Spectre in the Western Media in the Post–Cold War Era0
Regulating, Controlling and Using New Financial Inflows: The Introduction of a Modern Licensing Scheme in Swiss Professional Football (1992–2010)0
Sexuality and Eugenics in Female Gymnastics in the Mid-Twentieth Century in Uruguay0
Sports Facility Development and Politics in Budapest since 19450
Via Olympica: A Comprehensive View on the Origin and Development of Climbing Competitions0
‘We are Grateful for the Opportunity to Act as Ambassadors for Our Club and Our Country’: Sporting Hospitality during the Northern Ireland Conflict0
Dead or Alive: How Amateurism Shaped Marathons in Norway, 1896–19060
Sustainable Local Operation of Chin Woo Athletic Association in Singapore and Malaysia0
The Icy Road towards the First Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix 19240
Manufacturing the Image of a Country through Sport: Granma’s Press Coverage of Cuba’s Performance from the 1976 Montreal Olympics to the 2016 Rio Olympics0
Visualising Sport: ‘Visual Turns’, Visual Texts, Visual Culture0
‘Who Walked against Time’: Nineteenth Century Intersections of Pedestrianism and Medicine0
La Chica Moderna and the Virile Sport of Boxing: Women Boxers, Gender Politics, and Identity Construction in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s0
An Olympic Fairytale: The Zimbabwean Women’s Field Hockey Victory at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games0
Sport and the New Zealanders – a History0
The Forthright Political Stance of Sport for Development in Korean Official Development Assistance0
‘Winners, Regardless’?: Racial Politics, Civil Rights Struggles, and the 1950 Track and Field Tour of South Africa0
Because It Is There? Mount Everest, Masculinity, and the Body of George Mallory0
Alain Corbin’s Approach: Reconstructing the Life of ‘Wilhelm Sonderegger, Teacher’0
Mass Mobilization, Non-Competition and Proletarian Expertise: Mass Callisthenics and the Contested Egalitarian Politics in the Early People’s Republic of China, 1949–19760
From Entrepreneurial Origins to Professional Museum: A Practitioner’s Perspective on Field Hockey’s Sporting Heritage at The Hockey Museum, England0
The Financial Impact of World Series Cricket on Australia’s State Cricket Associations, 1974–19820
Women’s Competitive Sport in Iran: Unravelling Four Decades of Discursive Evolution, 1979–20200
The Early Cultural Evolution of Baseball in Korea (1876–1945): Unilateral Product of Cultural Imperialism or Multilateral Process?0
Gearing Up: Materials and Technology in the History of Sport0
A Seemingly Endless Debate? The Establishment of Golf Courses in Taiwan0
Communal and Corporate Transformation: Hayward Magic in the Era of Globalized Sport Culture0
National Mythscapes and Popular New Zealand Rugby Histories: Representing the 1986 Cavaliers0
Sports Diplomacy and Propaganda in Turkish Foreign Policy in the Early Republican Period0
Jorabin, a Sport or a Battle (from the Past to the Present)0
Marion Jackson’s Conflicted Sacrifice: The Atlanta Daily World’s Black Southern Sportswriter on the Tension between Integration and HBCU Sport0
‘We Didn’t Kill Any Babies’: The 1988 Rebel Track and Field Tour of South Africa0
Horse Racing and British Society in the Long Eighteenth Century0
Flexible Positional Superiority of Whiteness in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution: A Foucauldian Genealogy on the Atlanta Beat, 2001–20030
Indigenous Public History: Cherbourg’s Marching Girls0
The Formation of the Singapore Badminton Association and Emerging Players and Clubs at the Singapore Open Badminton Championships, 1929–19410
No Foreign Game: Association Football and the Making of Irish Identities0
Netball in Zimbabwe: Towards a Social History0
The Republic of China’s Naming Struggle in the Olympics (1949–1972)0
Commodifying Race: The Portrayal of Bernardo Mikixi, an Angolan Mixed Martial Artist, in the Extreme Fighting Championship’s Advertising Materials in South Africa, 2009–20150
1932 Olympic Games: The Participation of a Unique Brazilian Athlete0
The Founder of the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) Choi Hong Hi: An Exploration of Fiction and Fact0
The State and Canadian Cultural Nationalism: Protecting Canadian Football0
In Pursuit of Prestige: The International Olympic Committee’s Peace Efforts in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–1994)0
The 1968 Olympic Games: Tourism as Part of Nation Branding in Mexico0
Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region: Domination, Resistance, Accommodation0
Did the 1904 Entente Cordiale Originate in Bordeaux Thanks to Sports in 1895? Reflections on Sport Diplomacy0
A New Dawn: The Rise of Women’s Hockey Leagues and the Emergence and Demise of the English Ladies Hockey Leagues Association, 1910–19600
Counterpunch: The Cultural Battles Over Heavyweight Prizefighting in the American West0
The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts , by Raul Sanchez Garcia0
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
Empire at Play: The United States’ Cultural Influence on Nicaragua’s National Sports’ Identity0
The Rise of Cool Japan: The Representation of Japanese and American Athletes in Kuroko no Basuke: Extra Game0
Sport and History: Continuity and Change. Local Stories to Explain Global History0
Through the Lens of the Trainer-Masseurs: Australia’s Incongruous Engagement with the Olympic Amateur Ethos0
The Role of Clubs in Structuring French Sport: Case Study of Racing Club de France (1882–1908)0
Bloodline Organization of Disseminating Chin Woo Athletic to Nanyang: From Cultural Matrix China to SEA0
The Legacy of Sports Nationalism in South Korean Sport0
Mongolian Wrestling (Bukh) during the Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries0
Ernest Wilimowski – Polish and German National Team Player with an Unspecified Nationality0
Physical Culture and the Process of Human Improvement in Post-Revolutionary Russia0
The Evolution of Hanne Wassermann’s ‘ Gymnastik Methode ’ in Vienna’s Golden Autumn0
The Inheritance and Dissemination of Wushu Culture in the Global Era0
The Sporting Battalion Athletes in the Defence of Madrid During the Spanish Civil War 10
Empowering Indigenous Networks: Collaborative Governance and the Development of a Racial Vilification Code in the Australian Football League0
Inaugurating ‘Good Feeling between the United States and South Africa’: The 1931 All-White Tour of South Africa0
Olympic Winter Games in Non-Western Cities: State, Sport and Cultural Diplomacy in Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 20220
Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing0
The Matilda Effect0
The World Cup as World History0
Physical Education, Sports and Educational Reforms: The Assistance Agreement Between the Argentine Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany (1961–1980)0
From Funerals to Flares: Europeanisation of Finnish Football Supporter Culture0
The 1928 Olympic Winter Games in St Moritz: Tourism, Diplomacy and Domestic Politics0
The Institutional Development of the Philippine Olympic Movement and the Current Rise of Its Olympic Athletes0
Making Refereeing Global? How FIFA’s International Courses for Referees Helped Lay the Groundwork for Football’s Commercialization, 1948–19760
Sports Trans-Cultural Communication between China and Russia under the Belt and Road Initiative0
Gladiatori: una giornata di spettacoli0
On the Kicking Techniques of Pankration0
Enforced Ostracism? Analysis of the International Sports Organizations’ Reactions to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine0
‘It’s a Policy Matter, Not a Racial Matter’: Athlete Activism and Symbiotic Struggles against Apartheid in US Track and Field of the Early 1970s0
Modernization Through Leisure and Sports: The Case of Sümerbank Industrial Campuses in Turkey0
Hungarian Football Coaches in Latin America in the Interwar Period0
The Voice of the Athlete in History: An Overview0
Paternalistic Industrialization: Biopower, Physical Culture, and Sports in Industrial Planning Discourse (1770–1930)0
Symbolic Power and Dual Careers of Athletes: Successful Career Transition Experiences of Korean College Athletes Who Quit Sport0
National Mourning: The First Norwegian Sports Boycott in 19050
Media Framing of Women’s Football in Nigeria from the Early Twentieth Century to Present0
Bear Bryant, Sam Cunningham and Popular Memory of the Civil Rights Movement0
Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Kentucky Basketball0
‘Aikido Practitioners in Every Country Should Change and Unite with the Tradition’: Kisshomaru Ueshiba, Historical Memory, and the Internationalization of Aikido, 1948–19840
The Imperial State of Iran, a Deal-Broker: Enabling the People’s Republic of China’s Asian Games Debut in the 1974 Tehran Asian Games0
Channelling Soft Power: The Qatar 2022 World Cup, Migrant Workers, and International Image0
Czech Hercules: Gustav Frištenský, ‘Musculinity’, the Others and Visual Pleasure around 19000
A Vision of Macau’s Football through the Symbolic Legacy of the Portuguese Presence0
The Sportization of Rowing and Swimming in the Tietê River (São Paulo, Brazil, 1899–1949)0
Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Remade American Politics0
Between ‘Battlecade’ and ‘UFC Redemption’: The Growth of Mixed Martial Arts in Canada 1996–20130
‘A Fine Solidarity in the Life of the Countryside’: The Ashbees and Sport in the Cotswolds, 1902–19070
Ultralight: Commercializing Lightweight Backpacks for Long-Distance Hiking0
Entrepreneurial Goals: Development and Africapitalism in Ghanaian Soccer Academies0
Pakistan’s Participation at the Summer Olympic Games, 1948 to 2016: A Social Development Theory Approach0
Local Netball Histories in Twentieth Century Cape Province, South Africa0
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
Sports in Africa, Past and Present0
Introduction: Sport-Gender Orthodoxy and Muscular Christian Values0
‘Pommel Horse Rebels and Apartheid’s Friends’ – American Gymnasts and the International Anti-Apartheid Sports Boycott Against South Africa, 1970–19900
Historicizing Machoism in Swedish Ice Hockey0
County Club Finances and the Decline of Amateur Cricketers in England0
From Cultural Import to Flourishing Sport: A Comprehensive History of DanceSport in China (1864–2023)0
Against the Dangers of Gender Equality: The Position of the Holy See on Public Female Gymnastics in Germany and Italy during the Interwar Period0
‘This Is Not a Problem but an Issue’: Chinese-Born Table Tennis Players Representing Another Country at the Olympics, 1988–20200
Institutional Change in the Governance of Chinese Football: The Era of ‘Top-Level Design’ Under the Leadership of Xi Jinping0
Media Framing of Race and Football in Colonial Nigeria: 1914 to 1950s0
The Emergence of the Swedish Horse-Riding School from the Mid-Twentieth Century0
Examination of the Sportification Process of Aerobic and Its Competitive History0
Sport and Social Difference in Vienna around 1900: On the Historical Significance of Otto Herschmann0
Between Passion and Civic Duty: Polish Politics and Sport in Szczecin, 1945–19500
Bold Ambitions, Austere Realities: On the Unfulfilled Plans for the Warsaw Olympic Games0
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