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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Arnis Under American Colonial Rule: Expanding Sources, Geographical Scope, and Reconstructing Historical Narrative8
The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First Reconsidered The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First reconsidered , edited by David Kirk and Patr7
‘Cheap, Scientific and Free From Danger’: Accounting for the Development of Field Hockey in Aotearoa New Zealand6
Gymnastics in Nineteenth-Century South Africa5
A Critical and Historical Review of Women’s Football in Male-Dominated Sports Governing Bodies in Jamaica and Hawaiʻi5
The Sociohistorical Challenges to the Development of Women’s Football in Poland4
Sport Between a Century-Old Hostility: Football Relations of Serbia and Albania4
Reading Kristi Yamaguchi: Media, Multiculturalism, and the Double Process of Racialization4
Introduction: Africa in the Boxing Ring4
Making Public the History of Non-Racial Sport in South Africa3
A History of World Taekwondo-Approved Competition Uniforms3
The Polish Olympic Committee’s Subjection to the Communist Authorities in the Stalinist Period: An Inside Story3
Image of ‘Sino-Western Essence’ in the Press: On the ‘Dual-Track’ Physical Training System of Chin Woo Athletic Federation3
Reclaiming the 1934 Women’s World Games: Athletic and Gender Performance3
How Pure Was Romanian Rugby? Minority, Majority and Extremists in Romanian Interwar Rugby3
Physical Culture and Batllismo: Resignifying Amateurism in the Uruguayan Context3
Undoing Maradona: Subalterns of Sport for Development3
Tennis for Anyone?: Class and Social Transformation on the Court in Eric Ravilious’ Tennis (1930)3
The God Squad: The Born-Again San Francisco Giants of 19783
Placard Carriers and Flag Bearers: Gender Representation in the Summer Olympics’ Parade of Nations (1908–2021)3
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
Romanian Women’s Participation in Recreation and Sporting Activities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century2
County Club Finances and the Decline of Amateur Cricketers in England2
The Girl with the Torch: The Life Story of Gymnast Karin Lindberg Lindén2
Naming Practices in Cameroonian Football Clubs: Historical Shifts and Sociocultural Meanings from 1920 to 20202
Football and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Argentina: La Nuestra2
Professional Basketball, the ‘Hardship Case’ and the ‘Culture of Poverty’: The Social Construction of Black Basketball Players from Spencer Haywood to Moses Malone, 1969–19742
Exploring Sports and Identity in Macau: A Historical Perspective on Portuguese Influence and Contemporary Significance2
Breaking New Ground: A Historical Exploration of Women’s Cricket in India, 1973–19912
The Bicycling Boys of Conneaut: Juvenile Wheelers in the Golden Age of Cycling2
Sustainable Local Operation of Chin Woo Athletic Association in Singapore and Malaysia2
From Festivities to Competitions—The Historical Heritage and Modern Transformation of Dragon Boat Sports Culture in Taiwan2
Between Purity and Pragmatism: The Politics of Purebred Breeding and Racing of the Orlov Trotter in Imperial Russia, 1880–19152
A Mutual Dependency: Postcolonial Relations between the French Athletics Federation and French-Speaking African Athletics Federations (1956–1969)2
‘Dis Football Sef … Na Wahala’: A Continental Contest That Troubled a Nation2
From the Box Score to Artificial Intelligence: A Historical and Analytical Journey Through Basketball Statistics (1891–Present)2
Reconstructing Sports Heritage After Demolition: The Case of Dongdaemun Baseball Stadium in South Korea2
Cooperation of Sports Communities with the Government Apparatus in Poland in the Years 1945–19892
From Motions to Missions: Interrogating Sport Organization Annual Reports as Works of Sport Memory2
Development of Japanese Martial Arts in Hungarian Sport Culture2
Gender Norms, Fairness Ideology, and the First Openly Trans Woman Athlete in South Korea2
Sport and History in Small States and Non-Sovereign Territories: An Introduction2
Transactionality, Opportunism and the Third Generation’s Emotional Patriotism. Deservingness and Transnational Football Players in the Polish National Team1
Exploring Sport’s Role in Mitigating Conflicts Gulf Cup as a Case Study1
Transforming Scottish Basketball: Exploring the Student Impact, 1890s–1930s1
Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL1
Diplomatic Heavyweights: Sumō Wrestlers and Japan-China Relations in the Early 1970s1
Rugby in Early Communist Romania1
Sumiyuki Kotani, the Kodokan Emissary to Brazil1
From Cultural Import to Flourishing Sport: A Comprehensive History of DanceSport in China (1864–2023)1
Anzac Day Football: From Rotating Ritual to Monopolized ‘Tradition’, 1960–20251
The Lamido Yaya Daïrou Stadium of Maroua: A Site of Memory and a Source of History1
Eastern Beauties: The Role of Taiwanese Corporate Women’s Basketball Teams in Cold War Cultural Diplomacy1
Analysis of the Cancellation of the 2019 East Asian Youth Games in Taiwan1
Judo and Kendo as Instruments of Japanese Imperialism in the Philippines, 1942–19451
The Work of Georges Demenÿ in Brazilian Periodical Press: Themes Debated, 1890 − 19491
Facial Recognition Technology, Surveillance, and the Transformations of the Crowd in the Sports Stadium: A Literary Approach1
The Political and Social Determinants of Football Hooliganism in Central Europe in the Interwar Period1
Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa1
‘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 California to Brazil: The History of Skateboarding in Curitiba, Paraná (1975–1999)1
Internationalisation and Modern Sport: The Anglo-French Struggle to Control International Cycling, 1892–19141
The Balkan Athletics Championships: The Beginnings of inter-Balkan Sports Diplomacy, 1928–1934?1
Sports Facility Development and Politics in Budapest since 19451
Football and Stadia as Social Anchors: The University of Louisiana at Lafayette-Home of the Original ‘Swamp’1
Olympic Philately: Reading the 1896 Athens Olympics from Postage Stamps1
The Third Women’s World Games, Prague, 19301
Neither Asia nor Europe: Israel, Managed Liminality, and International Football, 1954–19911
Wisdom from the Wickets: Cricket Virtues and Colonial Governance in Lord Harris’ Bombay1
Sporting Art for the Global Age? ‘Edition Olympia’ and the 1972 Munich Olympics1
Making Refereeing Global? How FIFA’s International Courses for Referees Helped Lay the Groundwork for Football’s Commercialization, 1948–19761
‘Be Curious, Not Judgmental’: Advice to Coaches, Ethnographers and Beginners Everywhere1
Sports in South America: A History1
‘The Cheering Was Loud and Long’: Practical Feminism and the England Women’s Hockey Tour of Australia in 19271
Historical Clues in N′golo for the Understanding of Floreio in Capoeira1
Asia Pride Games (The Straits Games): Past, Present, and Future1
Engineering the Association Football: Changes in Laws, Markets, Design and Manufacture Through the History of the Beautiful Game1
On the Kicking Techniques of Pankration1
The Dialectic of Self-Reliance and Self-Colonization: Surrender, Resistance, and Independence in the Okinawan Karate Community, 1979–19971
Alaska Joins the Whitewater Union: The Birth of Whitewater Boating from the Colorado to the Yukon1
Women’s Weightlifting in Taiwan: History, Media and Gendered Politics from the 1980s to the Olympics1
Turning Gymnasts into Citizen-Soldiers: The Militarization of Physical Activities during the Third Republic in France (1870–1940)1
The Sporting Battalion Athletes in the Defence of Madrid During the Spanish Civil War 11
Serbian Sports Aviation in the Period 1925–19411
The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan1
Los Angeles, Barcelona, and Beijing: The Emergence of Three Organizational Sporting Models and the Future of the Olympic Games1
The Second World War, the ‘Rugby Split’, and the Afrikanerization of White Rugby in South Africa, c.1940–19561
Disputed Frontiers: Open Water Crossings in the River Plate, 1918–19241
Jorabin, a Sport or a Battle (from the Past to the Present)1
Living Football, Navigating Politics: Salah Assad’s Life Story in Post-Colonial and Post-Conflict Algeria1
Beyond the Beach: One Hundred and One Summers of Palm Beach Surf Club, vol. 1 and 21
The Aborted Project for the European Games in the 1960s and 1970s1
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sport: Sporting Literacy, Attenuated Agency, and Survivance1
Perceptions of School Sports in the GDR1
Navigating Athlete Welfare, 1962–2023: Policy, Practice and Challenges in South Korea1
Olympic Truce during the Nagano Olympics: Between Diplomacy and Public Diplomacy of the International Olympic Committee1
‘Pommel Horse Rebels and Apartheid’s Friends’ – American Gymnasts and the International Anti-Apartheid Sports Boycott Against South Africa, 1970–19901
From Online to Offline Surfing: The Role of Social Media in Promoting the Sustainability of the Obibini Girls Surf Club1
Regulating, Controlling and Using New Financial Inflows: The Introduction of a Modern Licensing Scheme in Swiss Professional Football (1992–2010)1
Pathway in Developing Sport Ecosystem in Small States1
A Contested Victory: Liberal Reformism and Women’s Physical Culture in Colombia, 1930–19461
Youth Education and Sport as an Arena of Political Rivalry: The Maccabi Movement in 1930s Palestine1
The First Women’s Olympic Games, Paris 19221
Soccer and Society in Dublin: A History of Association Football in Ireland’s Capital1
Sport and Social Difference in Vienna around 1900: On the Historical Significance of Otto Herschmann1
Sport in Qatar: Nation-Building, Cultural Identity, and Royal Influence1
Louis Faure-Dujarric, a French Sports Architect in the Interwar Period1
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
Introduction1
A ‘Fictitious National Crown’: The Rise and Fall of State of Origin Contests in Australian Rules Football, 1977–19991
Introduction: The History of Sport in the Balkans from the Sokol Movement to Physical Culture1
Physical Education, Sports and Educational Reforms: The Assistance Agreement Between the Argentine Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany (1961–1980)1
From Back Streets to Olympic Stage: The Development of Breaking and Skateboarding in South Korea1
Field Hockey in China: An Exploration of Socioeconomic and Political Changes, 1900–20240
Daciada and Winter Sports in Romania, 1976–19890
Summit Diplomacy: US-Soviet Mountaineering Exchanges, 1974–19890
The History of Sport in Brazil in the Global Context: Analysis of Publications in The International Journal of the History of Sport0
‘Cricket is Perfectly Suited to the Chinese People’: The Contemporary Development of Chinese Cricket0
Health, Sports, and Authoritarianism in Mexico’s Educational Project, 1930–19400
National Mythscapes and Popular New Zealand Rugby Histories: Representing the 1986 Cavaliers0
The Indoctrination of Academic Communities at Polish Physical Education Universities, 1950–560
Local, National and Global Histories of Netball: An Overview0
International Sport Success in a Non-Sovereign Nation: The Case of Judo in Scotland0
When Fitness Went Global: The Rise of Physical Culture in the Nineteenth Century0
‘Player as a Job’, Beyond Elitism: A Critical Look at the History of Professional Athlete Development in South Korea0
Framing Expertise: R. Alan Eagleson and the Toronto Globe and Mail , 1967–19940
Romania and the 1948 London Summer Olympics: Sport and Politics at the Dawn of the Cold War0
Sport at War: Nithard’s Strasbourg Cavalry Games of 8420
How Tom Wills Shaped the Origins and Early Evolution of Australian Rules Football0
Football’s Forgotten Years: Reclaiming the AFL Competition’s Earliest Era – 1870 to 18960
Tracing Two South Korean Olympic Pathways: Symbols, Conflicts, and Integration through Global Sports Events0
Chadwick: A Man of Many Parts0
Poland – The Land of Winter Sports: The Visual Representations of Skiing and Ice Hockey in the Polish Section of the 1932 Olympic Art Competition in Los Angeles0
Examination of the Sportification Process of Aerobic and Its Competitive History0
The North China Ice Games during the Period of the Republic of China0
Between Performance and Proto-Sport: Embodied Heritage, Commercial Entertainment, and the Career of Joseph Liphard’s Circus Troupe in Nineteenth-Century Europe0
Football and Black Identity: Lifestyle Construction in A Voz da Raça in São Paulo, Brazil, in 19330
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
Transnational Athletes – Historical Perspectives0
Cockfighting in Britain from Antiquity to the Enlightenment0
On the Origins of the Young Men’s Catholic Association as a Response to the Protestant Recreation Ethic in the United States, 1854–19090
‘Keeping a Lid On It’: How the Melbourne Daily Press Attempted to Repress Passions for Australian Rules Football, 1889 to 19220
‘Cultivating Character’: The Association of British Athleticism with the Educational Value of Japanese Football in Shūkyū Monthly Magazine (1931–41)0
An Alternative Model for International Competition: The First Women’s World Field Hockey Tournament, Copenhagen 19330
Embodied Citizenship: Track and Field and the Politics of Belonging in Postcolonial Barbados0
The Failed Decolonization of Egyptian Basketball, 1920–19520
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
‘Here to Just Play’: Investigating the Violent Protests That Occurred in Melbourne During South Africa’s Netball Tour of Australia in 19700
Sport and Authoritarianism in Latin America: An Introduction0
The International Women’s Sport Federation (1921–1936): A Transnational Women’s Movement0
Introduction: Public Sport History and Community Sport0
Sex Testing in Volleyball0
Umpires, Referees, Judges and Stewards: Changing Modes of Judgment and Arbitration in English Sport c.1600–c.19000
‘God Bless Joan Payson’: The Surprising Coverage of the First Woman to Buy a Sports Team0
Big Wave Surfing: From the Local to the Global Stage of Surfing, or Vice Versa?0
The 1968 Olympic Games: Tourism as Part of Nation Branding in Mexico0
‘Unsportsmanlike Behaviour’: Okigwe Football League and Inter-Community Rivalries in Southeastern Nigeria, 1949–19510
A New Dawn: The Rise of Women’s Hockey Leagues and the Emergence and Demise of the English Ladies Hockey Leagues Association, 1910–19600
States of Play: How Sportswashing Took Over Football0
Mass Choreography in Olympic Ceremonies: The Case of Turin 20060
Modern Visions of Physical Education: The Dissemination and Institutionalization of Polish Enlightenment Publications0
The Emergence of ‘Sport for All’ in Socialist Yugoslavia0
No Foreign Game: Association Football and the Making of Irish Identities0
Transnational Mediation of Sports: Attention and Verbal Framing of Men’s Handball Teams and Athletes on Danish, German, and Romanian Online Sports News Sites0
How You Play the Game: Judaism, Hellenism, and Athletics in Philo’s De Agricultura0
Olympic Infighting: An Exploration of Power Games between Leaders of International Sport Federations and the International Olympic Committee0
‘We Have No Bamboo Curtain’: Sports Diplomacy and China’s Techniques of Reshaping Southeast Asian Perception in the Second Half of the 1950s0
Riding the Waves of Change: The History and Culture of Women’s Surfing in Ireland0
Women’s Competitive Sport in Iran: Unravelling Four Decades of Discursive Evolution, 1979–20200
The Long Economic Thread: Two Millennia of Commercialism and Sport0
Disciplining Performance: The Institutional History of Sport Sciences in Revolutionary Cuba0
Cackyhander: Writing about Cricket, Sports History and the Olympic Games0
The Best Professionals in Army and Miliţia Were the Football Players: Shamateurism in Romanian Football during the ‘Golden Epoch’0
‘We are Grateful for the Opportunity to Act as Ambassadors for Our Club and Our Country’: Sporting Hospitality during the Northern Ireland Conflict0
Sports and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Rangers Football Club and Igbo Reintegration and Identity in Post-Civil War Nigeria0
The Institutional Development of the Philippine Olympic Movement and the Current Rise of Its Olympic Athletes0
Dongdaemun Stadium Memorial, Seoul: The Ambiguous Status of a South Korean Sports Heritage0
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
On the Martial Stances of Ancient Hellenic Palē, Pygmē, and Pankration: A Window into How Each Combat Sport Was Practiced0
Ad Santel is Coming to Town: The 1921 Yasukuni Shrine ‘MMA Fights’ Between Catch Wrestling and Kōdōkan Judo0
Small States and Territories Against a Giant: The Organisation History of Football in Oceania0
Aerobics Made in Poland: Women’s Mass Leisure Activity in the Socialist State, 1983–19890
The Sporting Club Maccabi de Paris in the Interwar Period (1924–1939): The Path of a Zionist Club0
The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies, Men, and Communities in Late Imperial Istanbul0
The Financial Impact of World Series Cricket on Australia’s State Cricket Associations, 1974–19820
Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America’s Anti-Apartheid Movement0
Olympic Games and Adventure Sports: The Inclusion of Surfing in the Tokyo 2020 edition0
Games, Greek and Pluck: Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education and British Sport, 1850–1914, by Andy Carter, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2025, xi + 327 pp., £47 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-80374-613-50
The Sport Hero Concept in Czechoslovakia: The Phenomenon of Emil Zátopek, 1948–19560
Baseball in the Atacama Desert: From Elitist Sport to Popular Identity in Tocopilla, Chile (1915–1971)0
Animal-Human Relations: Fighting Cocks and Their Professional Cock-Feeders in England in the Long Eighteenth Century: The Secret World of Cockfight Preparation0
Pucks, Politics, and Parochialism: The Collapse of the Boston Bruins’ 1981 Move to Salem, New Hampshire0
Dawn of the War on Steroids0
A Seemingly Endless Debate? The Establishment of Golf Courses in Taiwan0
Final Score: The Sports Chosen for Broadcast on the BBC’s Grandstand0
Bold Ambitions, Austere Realities: On the Unfulfilled Plans for the Warsaw Olympic Games0
Cricket Ball: The Heart of the Game0
Between Heaven and Hell: Constraint, Rivalry, and the Making of Yugoslav Alpine Excellence in the Cold War0
Sports Diplomacy Surrounding the IOC’s Response to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Between Political Neutrality and Peace Promotion0
Gladiatoren: Die Wirklichkeit hinter der Legende (Gladiators: The reality behind the legend)0
Basketball Returns Home: The Diffusion and Translocation of Basketball to Scotland0
Marion Jackson’s Conflicted Sacrifice: The Atlanta Daily World’s Black Southern Sportswriter on the Tension between Integration and HBCU Sport0
Gender, Hoops and Soft Power: The 1958 United States Women’s Basketball Goodwill Tour in the Soviet Union0
Entrepreneurial Goals: Development and Africapitalism in Ghanaian Soccer Academies0
On the Hand-Strike Techniques of Ancient Hellenic Boxing and Pankration0
Populism and Professionalism in Brazilian Football during Getulio Vargas’s Regime (1930–1945)0
The Last Gladiator: William Muldoon and the Making of American Sports0
The Inclusion of eSports in the Olympic System: From Neglect to eSports Games0
Local, National and Global Histories of Field Hockey: An Overview0
Festive Federalism: Race, Nation, and Neoliberal Aesthetics at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games0
Indigenous Public History: Cherbourg’s Marching Girls0
The Sportization of Rowing and Swimming in the Tietê River (São Paulo, Brazil, 1899–1949)0
The Second Women’s Olympic Games, Gothenburg, 19260
Introduction0
From Funerals to Flares: Europeanisation of Finnish Football Supporter Culture0
Around the Grounds: The Origins of Australian Rules Football Radio Broadcasts, 1925–19390
Institutional Change in the Governance of Chinese Football: The Era of ‘Top-Level Design’ Under the Leadership of Xi Jinping0
The So-Called ‘First’ Korean Taekwondo School: The Ch’ŏngdo Kwan0
‘Know the Game—Boxing’: Boxing in Colonial Kenya, 1895–19630
Athletic Success, Authenticity, and National Identity in Singapore: Representing the Little Red Dot0
Picasso’s Balancing Act: Classicism and Modernism Before the 1924 Paris Olympics0
Ernest Wilimowski – Polish and German National Team Player with an Unspecified Nationality0
Building the Landscape of Sports Diplomacy: R. William Jones Cup Intercontinental Basketball Tournament on Formosa Island in the Cold War Era0
A Runner’s Journey0
‘Die for Hong Kong’? Naturalized Players in Hong Kong Football Since 19450
An Olympic Fairytale: The Zimbabwean Women’s Field Hockey Victory at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games0
Windsurfing’s Rapid Global Diffusion: The Evolution of a 1970s Technology-First Sport0
‘A Hero Who Made This Country Proud’: Boxing, Nation, and the Politics of Sport in Kenya, ca 1950–19800
Building European Fraternity Through Gymnastics: The Establishment of the Bureau Des Fédérations Européennes de Gymnastiques, 1863–19130
Chamonix 1924: The First Winter Olympics0
‘Who Walked against Time’: Nineteenth Century Intersections of Pedestrianism and Medicine0
Invention, Interpretation, and Diffusion: A Transnational Framework for the Development of Netball, 1895–19260
New Evidence of Women Fighting Beasts in the Roman Arena: The Woman in the Mosaic from Reims0
Socialist Decolonial Practices and the Transformation of Sports Venues in China’s Former Foreign Concessions: The Case of Tianjin’s Minyuan Stadium in the 1950s0
Turkey’s First Female Auto Racing Champion: Samiye Cahit Morkaya0
The Heroism of the Long-Distance Runner: Janusz Kusociński and His Times as Portrayed in Light of His Memoirs From Palant to the Olympics0
Sport Diplomacy and National Identity: Palestinian Sport Under the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), 1969–19920
From Acclaim to Collapse: The Rise and Fall of the A1 Grand Prix World Cup of Motorsport (A1GP, 2005–2009)0
Ajua Game Among the Luo of Kenya: A Space to Imagine, Navigate, and Contest Social Identities0
‘Complete Anglers’ in Persia: On the Genesis of the Art of Angling in the ‘Valley of Happiness’0
Rules for the Water: The Transformation of Aquatic Practices in Argentina (1925–1939)0
The Forty-Three Year History of Taipei Baseball Stadium, 1957–20000
Skiing into Leadership: Cultivating Modern Womanhood Through Extracurricular Life, Sport, and Service at the University of Alberta During the 1930s0
Who Makes Good Sports Shows?: The First Velodrome Managers in France at the End of the Nineteenth Century0
Sport and History: Continuity and Change. Local Stories to Explain Global History0
Beautiful Bridesmaides Dressed in Oranje. The Unfulfilled Glory of Dutch Football0
Napoli – Campione D’Italia! The Ubiquitous Football Iconography as a Tool for the Reinforcement of Collective Identity0
Sports Diplomacy and Propaganda in Turkish Foreign Policy in the Early Republican Period0
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