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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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The Sociohistorical Challenges to the Development of Women’s Football in Poland23
‘We Do Not Divide Our Champions According to Color’?: A Failed 1938 All-White Follow-Up Tour of South Africa11
‘Athletes for Peace’? From the Quest to Hold the Mavericks Accountable to a Second American Rebel Tour of South Africa9
How Pure Was Romanian Rugby? Minority, Majority and Extremists in Romanian Interwar Rugby8
The Big O: The Life and Times of Olsen Filipaina, Pacific Revolution Pioneer8
The Emergence and Development of Netball in Jamaica, 1909–19417
Developing Winning Ways for Women’s Sport: New Zealand’s National Netball Team6
‘Cheap, Scientific and Free From Danger’: Accounting for the Development of Field Hockey in Aotearoa New Zealand6
Racialized Marketing in the Athletic Apparel Industry: The Convergence of Sneaker Promotion and Black Culture in the United States6
The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First Reconsidered The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First reconsidered , edited by David Kirk and Patr5
A History of World Taekwondo-Approved Competition Uniforms4
Making Public the History of Non-Racial Sport in South Africa4
The Olympic Movement and Safeguarding Athletes: Exploring South Korea’s Journey to Protect Athletes3
A History of the British Sporting Journalist, c.1850-1939 James Catton, Sports Reporter3
Undoing Maradona: Subalterns of Sport for Development3
Introduction: Africa in the Boxing Ring3
Six Minutes in Berlin. Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics3
The Polish Olympic Committee’s Subjection to the Communist Authorities in the Stalinist Period: An Inside Story3
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
Book Reviews: A Specificity of Historical Practice2
Women’s Artistic Gymnastics: Socio-Cultural Perspectives2
‘A Democracy That Will Know Not the Differences of Race’: American ‘Globetrotting’ in South Africa from the 1920s through the 1980s in Perspective2
Athletics, Exhibitions and Exchanges: American Sport Diplomacy in Iran, 1955–19592
Image of ‘Sino-Western Essence’ in the Press: On the ‘Dual-Track’ Physical Training System of Chin Woo Athletic Federation2
Football and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Argentina: La Nuestra2
Decathlon and the 2 Second Tent: From Discount to Innovation (1976–2008)2
The Girl with the Torch: The Life Story of Gymnast Karin Lindberg Lindén2
‘An Honour, Rather than a Disgrace’: Song Koon Poh, Apartheid Rugby, Tokkie’s Dragons and the Politics of Dissent and Confession2
The Medical Examination of Lady Competitors: Sex Control in Skiing, 1967–20002
White Gold: Snowmaking, Resort Growth, and Skier Experience in the U.S. East, 1945–19712
Development of Japanese Martial Arts in Hungarian Sport Culture2
Football, Propaganda and International Relations under Francoism: The 1960 and 1964 European Nations Cup and Their Impact on the International Press2
Introduction: Sport-Gender Orthodoxy and Muscular Christian Values2
From Motions to Missions: Interrogating Sport Organization Annual Reports as Works of Sport Memory2
A Mutual Dependency: Postcolonial Relations between the French Athletics Federation and French-Speaking African Athletics Federations (1956–1969)2
Romanian Women’s Participation in Recreation and Sporting Activities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century2
‘Dis Football Sef … Na Wahala’: A Continental Contest That Troubled a Nation2
Forging a Link between Competitive Gaming, Sport and the Olympics: History and New Developments2
Placard Carriers and Flag Bearers: Gender Representation in the Summer Olympics’ Parade of Nations (1908–2021)2
Between Purity and Pragmatism: The Politics of Purebred Breeding and Racing of the Orlov Trotter in Imperial Russia, 1880–19152
The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan1
Living Football, Navigating Politics: Salah Assad’s Life Story in Post-Colonial and Post-Conflict Algeria1
The Trade Union Sport Organisation in Communist Romania between 1973 and 1989: Workplace Gymnastics, Mass and Elite Sport1
On the Kicking Techniques of Pankration1
‘In Case of Dispute, the French Text is to be Used’: A History of the Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus (AIACR), 1904–19221
Mongolian Wrestling (Bukh) during the Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries1
The Olympic Oath and so Much More: A Biographical Interpretive Analysis of the Life of Victor Boin, 1886–19741
‘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
Soccer and Society in Dublin: A History of Association Football in Ireland’s Capital1
A Historical Review of Elite Sport Development in Hong Kong1
Willy Richard Frantz Seewald (1900–1929): The Brazilian Sportsman in the 1924 Olympic Games1
‘The Cheering Was Loud and Long’: Practical Feminism and the England Women’s Hockey Tour of Australia in 19271
An Evaluation of Turkish Wrestling History during the Ottoman Empire1
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
Regulating, Controlling and Using New Financial Inflows: The Introduction of a Modern Licensing Scheme in Swiss Professional Football (1992–2010)1
Making Refereeing Global? How FIFA’s International Courses for Referees Helped Lay the Groundwork for Football’s Commercialization, 1948–19761
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sport: Sporting Literacy, Attenuated Agency, and Survivance1
Gearing Up: Materials and Technology in the History of Sport1
Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap: Hockey’s Agents of Change1
Analysis of the Cancellation of the 2019 East Asian Youth Games in Taiwan1
The Political and Social Determinants of Football Hooliganism in Central Europe in the Interwar Period1
Wisdom from the Wickets: Cricket Virtues and Colonial Governance in Lord Harris’ Bombay1
Louis Faure-Dujarric, a French Sports Architect in the Interwar Period1
Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa1
Transnational Surfistas and the Development of Nicaragua’s Emerald Coast1
Reading Le Jingyi’s Back: The Creation and Construction of the Sino-Steroid Spectre in the Western Media in the Post–Cold War Era1
A Contested Victory: Liberal Reformism and Women’s Physical Culture in Colombia, 1930–19461
Sustainable Local Operation of Chin Woo Athletic Association in Singapore and Malaysia1
Sumiyuki Kotani, the Kodokan Emissary to Brazil1
The Origin and Significance of the Korean Boy Scout Movement during the Japanese Occupation1
County Club Finances and the Decline of Amateur Cricketers in England1
The Sporting Battalion Athletes in the Defence of Madrid During the Spanish Civil War 11
Sport in the Service of Propaganda: Social and Political Conditions of Sport in Rural Poland, 1945–19561
Introduction1
Olympic Philately: Reading the 1896 Athens Olympics from Postage Stamps1
‘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 Africa1
Distance Education for the Public during Turkey’s Early Republican Period: Physical Education Lessons on Radio1
1932 Olympic Games: The Participation of a Unique Brazilian Athlete1
Turning Gymnasts into Citizen-Soldiers: The Militarization of Physical Activities during the Third Republic in France (1870–1940)1
Olympic Truce during the Nagano Olympics: Between Diplomacy and Public Diplomacy of the International Olympic Committee1
Salvation on the Gridiron: Fundamentalism, Football, and Christian Manhood at Wheaton College, 1900–19491
Sport and Social Difference in Vienna around 1900: On the Historical Significance of Otto Herschmann1
Sports Press as a Soft Power Tool in the Polish-German Border Plebiscite of 19211
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
The Birth of Sports Medicine in Prewar Japan: A Perspective on Its Ideological and Organizational Origins1
Media Framing of Women’s Football in Nigeria from the Early Twentieth Century to Present1
Sports in South America: A History1
Breaking New Ground: A Historical Exploration of Women’s Cricket in India, 1973–19911
Sister Rose Ann Fleming: An Unlikely Point Guard and Gender-Holistic Servant-Leader1
Cooperation of Sports Communities with the Government Apparatus in Poland in the Years 1945–19891
‘Pommel Horse Rebels and Apartheid’s Friends’ – American Gymnasts and the International Anti-Apartheid Sports Boycott Against South Africa, 1970–19901
From Back Streets to Olympic Stage: The Development of Breaking and Skateboarding in South Korea1
From Cultural Import to Flourishing Sport: A Comprehensive History of DanceSport in China (1864–2023)1
Tunnel and Crossing: The Future Road of the Olympics under Tokyo 2020 ‘+1’1
Sports Facility Development and Politics in Budapest since 19451
On the Take: The 1910 Scandal That Changed Australian Football Forever1
A Hotly Contested Affair: Hockey in Canada: The National Game in Documents1
The Sport Hero Concept in Czechoslovakia: The Phenomenon of Emil Zátopek, 1948–19560
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
Populism and Professionalism in Brazilian Football during Getulio Vargas’s Regime (1930–1945)0
Sports Diplomacy and Propaganda in Turkish Foreign Policy in the Early Republican Period0
Negotiating the Space between East and West: Sport and Gender Politics in Swiss Women’s Artistic Gymnastics in the Cold War Era0
The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia: Sport, Nationalism and the State0
The Long Economic Thread: Two Millennia of Commercialism and Sport0
Pucks, Politics, and Parochialism: The Collapse of the Boston Bruins’ 1981 Move to Salem, New Hampshire0
Chadwick: A Man of Many Parts0
‘We are Grateful for the Opportunity to Act as Ambassadors for Our Club and Our Country’: Sporting Hospitality during the Northern Ireland Conflict0
The Institutional Position of Athletes in the Governance Networks of the Olympic Movement in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom0
‘A Powerful Sporting Tradition among Canadian Basilians’: Early Twentieth-Century Catholic Priest-Coaches at St Michael’s College0
Olympic Games and Adventure Sports: The Inclusion of Surfing in the Tokyo 2020 edition0
Physical Culture and the Process of Human Improvement in Post-Revolutionary Russia0
Umpires, Referees, Judges and Stewards: Changing Modes of Judgment and Arbitration in English Sport c.1600–c.19000
Sport and Authoritarianism in Latin America: An Introduction0
The Pinochet’s Team. The Soccer National Team and the Coup D’état of September 11, 19730
The Voice of the Athlete in History: An Overview0
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
Athletic Success, Authenticity, and National Identity in Singapore: Representing the Little Red Dot0
Stakeholder Engagement in Sport Policy Decision Making in Taiwan during the COVID-19 Pandemic0
The North China Ice Games during the Period of the Republic of China0
A Game Taken Seriously: The Foundations of Yorkshire’s Cricketing Power0
The Institutional Development of the Philippine Olympic Movement and the Current Rise of Its Olympic Athletes0
Olympic Winter Games in Non-Western Cities: State, Sport and Cultural Diplomacy in Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 20220
Taiwan’s Olympic Hero: The Legend of Asian Iron Man, C. K. Yang0
German-Brazilian Women in Turnen at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century0
Olympic History and Legacy: New Research in Bidding for and Hosting the Olympic Winter Games0
Training Female Bodies for New India: Women’s Physical Education between Global Trends and Local Politics in Colonial South Asia, c. 1900–19390
Transnational Mediation of Sports: Attention and Verbal Framing of Men’s Handball Teams and Athletes on Danish, German, and Romanian Online Sports News Sites0
The Legacy of Sports Nationalism in South Korean Sport0
Transnational Athletes – Historical Perspectives0
Beautiful Bridesmaides Dressed in Oranje. The Unfulfilled Glory of Dutch Football0
Between Institutionalization and De-Institutionalization: Lifecycles of Sports Clubs in Israel0
Remembering Brazil @Mexico1970: Social Media & Collective Memory Making in Times of COVID-190
El deporte en la Grecia antigua: aspectos sociopolíticos y culturales (Sport in Ancient Greece: socio-political and cultural aspects)0
The Bumpy Road to World Athletics: Foundation, People, Policies0
An Alternative Model for International Competition: The First Women’s World Field Hockey Tournament, Copenhagen 19330
Historical Transformations of the Palestinian Civil Society: The Case of Sports Clubs in the West Bank0
Olympic Infighting: An Exploration of Power Games between Leaders of International Sport Federations and the International Olympic Committee0
Ladies and Lords: A History of Women’s Cricket in Britain0
Sports and Lao-Viet Contact and Conflict in the 1930s0
What Factors Determine the Success or Failure of ‘Cross-Border’ Career Development of Chinese Retired Olympic Champions? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis0
Introduction0
‘Winners, Regardless’?: Racial Politics, Civil Rights Struggles, and the 1950 Track and Field Tour of South Africa0
Aerobics Made in Poland: Women’s Mass Leisure Activity in the Socialist State, 1983–19890
Framing Expertise: R. Alan Eagleson and the Toronto Globe and Mail , 1967–19940
Modern Visions of Physical Education: The Dissemination and Institutionalization of Polish Enlightenment Publications0
Ad Santel is Coming to Town: The 1921 Yasukuni Shrine ‘MMA Fights’ Between Catch Wrestling and Kōdōkan Judo0
The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and Inter-Asian Connections in South Korea0
The History of Outdoor Learning in Canada0
Health, Sports, and Authoritarianism in Mexico’s Educational Project, 1930–19400
C. Gärtner, the Olympic Circus, and the Origins of Equestrianism in the Grand Duchy of Posen0
‘Know the Game—Boxing’: Boxing in Colonial Kenya, 1895–19630
Festive Federalism: Race, Nation, and Neoliberal Aesthetics at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games0
Daciada and Winter Sports in Romania, 1976–19890
Institutional Change in the Governance of Chinese Football: The Era of ‘Top-Level Design’ Under the Leadership of Xi Jinping0
Local, National and Global Histories of Netball: An Overview0
The Games That Never Happened: Social Reception and Press Coverage of the Kraków Bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics (2012–2014)0
An Olympic Fairytale: The Zimbabwean Women’s Field Hockey Victory at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games0
Field Hockey in China: An Exploration of Socioeconomic and Political Changes, 1900–20240
National Mourning: The First Norwegian Sports Boycott in 19050
Examination of the Sportification Process of Aerobic and Its Competitive History0
Basketball Returns Home: The Diffusion and Translocation of Basketball to Scotland0
Local Netball Histories in Twentieth Century Cape Province, South Africa0
Football’s Forgotten Years: Reclaiming the AFL Competition’s Earliest Era – 1870 to 18960
From Funerals to Flares: Europeanisation of Finnish Football Supporter Culture0
Entrepreneurial Goals: Development and Africapitalism in Ghanaian Soccer Academies0
Turkey’s First Female Auto Racing Champion: Samiye Cahit Morkaya0
A Dilemma: Women in Turkish Sport News Amidst Modernization and Traditionalism0
The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts , by Raul Sanchez Garcia0
National Mythscapes and Popular New Zealand Rugby Histories: Representing the 1986 Cavaliers0
The Inheritance and Dissemination of Wushu Culture in the Global Era0
The 1952 and 1994 Olympic Flames: Norway’s Quest for Winter Olympic Identity0
Windsurfing’s Rapid Global Diffusion: The Evolution of a 1970s Technology-First Sport0
Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age0
The Failed Decolonization of Egyptian Basketball, 1920–19520
Football and Black Identity: Lifestyle Construction in A Voz da Raça in São Paulo, Brazil, in 19330
Netball in Zimbabwe: Towards a Social History0
Baseball in the Atacama Desert: From Elitist Sport to Popular Identity in Tocopilla, Chile (1915–1971)0
Football, Entertainment, and Business: Hans Gamper and KS Cracovia’s 1923 Tour of Spain0
A Sporting Nation: Creating Sámi Identity through Sport0
‘Complete Anglers’ in Persia: On the Genesis of the Art of Angling in the ‘Valley of Happiness’0
Women’s Competitive Sport in Iran: Unravelling Four Decades of Discursive Evolution, 1979–20200
Mass Choreography in Olympic Ceremonies: The Case of Turin 20060
‘Who Walked against Time’: Nineteenth Century Intersections of Pedestrianism and Medicine0
The Sporting Club Maccabi de Paris in the Interwar Period (1924–1939): The Path of a Zionist Club0
A Runner’s Journey0
Tracing Two South Korean Olympic Pathways: Symbols, Conflicts, and Integration through Global Sports Events0
Building European Fraternity Through Gymnastics: The Establishment of the Bureau Des Fédérations Européennes de Gymnastiques, 1863–19130
Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America’s Anti-Apartheid Movement0
Ernest Wilimowski – Polish and German National Team Player with an Unspecified Nationality0
‘Cultivating Character’: The Association of British Athleticism with the Educational Value of Japanese Football in Shūkyū Monthly Magazine (1931–41)0
Grenoble 1968, Albertville 1992, and the Establishment of a Strategy to Protect and Market the Winter Olympic Emblems0
Cackyhander: Writing about Cricket, Sports History and the Olympic Games0
No Foreign Game: Association Football and the Making of Irish Identities0
Invention, Interpretation, and Diffusion: A Transnational Framework for the Development of Netball, 1895–19260
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
The Second Women’s Olympic Games, Gothenburg, 19260
Visualising Sport: ‘Visual Turns’, Visual Texts, Visual Culture0
Media Framing of Race and Football in Colonial Nigeria: 1914 to 1950s0
Technology and Its Role in Making Dinghy Sailing More Accessible: Innovation Networks in the USA, United Kingdom and France0
On the Hand-Strike Techniques of Ancient Hellenic Boxing and Pankration0
The 1968 Olympic Games: Tourism as Part of Nation Branding in Mexico0
Popularization of Physical Culture and Tourism in the Grand Duchy of Posen: A Case Study of the Tygodnik Poznański (Posen Weekly) Magazine0
The Attempted Grobalization of Parkour by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique0
A Seemingly Endless Debate? The Establishment of Golf Courses in Taiwan0
Indigenous Public History: Cherbourg’s Marching Girls0
Bold Ambitions, Austere Realities: On the Unfulfilled Plans for the Warsaw Olympic Games0
‘God Bless Joan Payson’: The Surprising Coverage of the First Woman to Buy a Sports Team0
The Founder of the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) Choi Hong Hi: An Exploration of Fiction and Fact0
The Icy Road towards the First Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix 19240
Historicizing Machoism in Swedish Ice Hockey0
Through the Lens of the Trainer-Masseurs: Australia’s Incongruous Engagement with the Olympic Amateur Ethos0
On the Origins of the Young Men’s Catholic Association as a Response to the Protestant Recreation Ethic in the United States, 1854–19090
Local, National and Global Histories of Field Hockey: An Overview0
‘A Hero Who Made This Country Proud’: Boxing, Nation, and the Politics of Sport in Kenya, ca 1950–19800
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
Introduction: Public Sport History and Community Sport0
Dead or Alive: How Amateurism Shaped Marathons in Norway, 1896–19060
Nadia și Securitatea [Nadia and the Securitate]0
Daniel Prenn – From Germany’s First Man in the Top Ten to ‘“No Nationality” Man’?0
A Supplementary Sport? Towards a Historical Analysis of the Development of Badminton in New Zealand, c. 1870–19390
A New Dawn: The Rise of Women’s Hockey Leagues and the Emergence and Demise of the English Ladies Hockey Leagues Association, 1910–19600
Estranged: Notes on the Historical Development of the Relationship between Players and Manufacturers of Ice Hockey Equipment in Canada0
The Premier and China’s Pursuit of the Olympics0
Channelling Soft Power: The Qatar 2022 World Cup, Migrant Workers, and International Image0
Building the Landscape of Sports Diplomacy: R. William Jones Cup Intercontinental Basketball Tournament on Formosa Island in the Cold War Era0
Politics in Sport Facility Development in Budapest, 1863–19450
Summit Diplomacy: US-Soviet Mountaineering Exchanges, 1974–19890
The Sportization of Rowing and Swimming in the Tietê River (São Paulo, Brazil, 1899–1949)0
Sport and History: Continuity and Change. Local Stories to Explain Global History0
‘Unsportsmanlike Behaviour’: Okigwe Football League and Inter-Community Rivalries in Southeastern Nigeria, 1949–19510
Sports, Human Rights and Diplomacy: Argentine ‘Rebel’ Rugby Tours to South Africa in the 1980s0
‘I Consider Myself a Political Prisoner’: The Long and Strange Journeys of American Rebels Enmeshed in Ironies of the Athletes’ Rights Crusade0
A ‘Rebel’ on the Run: Kenyan Gambles on Intercollegiate Athletics, Apartheid Sport, and US Road Racing of the 1980s – The Case of Samson Obwocha0
Dongdaemun Stadium Memorial, Seoul: The Ambiguous Status of a South Korean Sports Heritage0
‘We Have Given Birth to a Very Busty Infant’: Post-War Origins of Sports Medicine in New Zealand0
Educating the Elite in an Egalitarian Context: The Emergence of Sport Schools for Elite Talents in Sweden in the 1970s0
Dawn of the War on Steroids0
‘Cricket is Perfectly Suited to the Chinese People’: The Contemporary Development of Chinese Cricket0
The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics0
Chamonix 1924: The First Winter Olympics0
‘Striking the Mighty Anvil Known as “Propaganda”’: Journalism and the Institutionalization of Sport in Spain, 1890–19200
The Financial Impact of World Series Cricket on Australia’s State Cricket Associations, 1974–19820
The Beginnings of the International Ice Hockey Federation0
The So-Called ‘First’ Korean Taekwondo School: The Ch’ŏngdo Kwan0
Marion Jackson’s Conflicted Sacrifice: The Atlanta Daily World’s Black Southern Sportswriter on the Tension between Integration and HBCU Sport0
‘If the IOC Finds Out about This, All of You Will Be Declared Professionals’: The Professionalization of Finnish Track Athletes from the 1960s to 1980s0
From Balls and Hoops to Coconuts and Tambourines: Protagonisms and Paradoxes of European Coach Ilona Peuker on Brazilian Floors0
The Environmental Reimagining of Olympic Sarajevo0
Counterpunch: The Cultural Battles Over Heavyweight Prizefighting in the American West0
Non-Racial Sport in South Africa: A Documentary Analysis of the Struggle for International Recognition, 1946–19710
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