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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Between Institutionalization and De-Institutionalization: Lifecycles of Sports Clubs in Israel23
Wisdom from the Wickets: Cricket Virtues and Colonial Governance in Lord Harris’ Bombay11
The Premier and China’s Pursuit of the Olympics9
Taiwan’s Olympic Hero: The Legend of Asian Iron Man, C. K. Yang8
More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan8
Global Sports Fandom in South Korea: American Major League Baseball and Its Fans in the Online Community, by Younghan Cho7
Japan through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics7
From Back Streets to Olympic Stage: The Development of Breaking and Skateboarding in South Korea6
Making Public the History of Non-Racial Sport in South Africa6
Nation, City, Arena: Sports Events, Nation Building and City Politics in Indonesia6
The Impact of Sex and Gendered Stories of Sport in Australia4
The Athletes’ Voice and a Feminist Ethics of Care: The Russian Doping Scandal at the 2016 Olympic Games3
‘Complete Anglers’ in Persia: On the Genesis of the Art of Angling in the ‘Valley of Happiness’3
A Futile Contestation for Olympic Power: The Case of Roberto G. Peper’s Election to the International Olympic Committee3
Educating the Elite in an Egalitarian Context: The Emergence of Sport Schools for Elite Talents in Sweden in the 1970s3
An Alternative Model for International Competition: The First Women’s World Field Hockey Tournament, Copenhagen 19333
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sport: Sporting Literacy, Attenuated Agency, and Survivance3
Priests, Bearers, Schoolboys, Sailors: Pioneering Indian Field Hockey Players from Bengal in the 1890s3
‘I Consider Myself a Political Prisoner’: The Long and Strange Journeys of American Rebels Enmeshed in Ironies of the Athletes’ Rights Crusade2
Playing with the Boycott: Israel-South Africa Sports Ties in the Apartheid Era*2
A Sporting Nation: Creating Sámi Identity through Sport2
A Tale of Two Medals: The USA, Olympic Ice Hockey and Popular American Views of Détente (1972) and Renewed Cold War (1980)2
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
Out of Apartheid’s (Racial) Corner: One Man’s Journey from Bare-Fists to Bible-Puncher2
‘Athletes for Peace’? From the Quest to Hold the Mavericks Accountable to a Second American Rebel Tour of South Africa2
The Membership Composition of the Athletes’ Commission of the International Olympic Committee: Between Appointments and Elections, 1981–20002
‘We Have Given Birth to a Very Busty Infant’: Post-War Origins of Sports Medicine in New Zealand2
Walking through the Dark: FC Barcelona and the Forced Closure of 19252
Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America’s Anti-Apartheid Movement2
The Big O: The Life and Times of Olsen Filipaina, Pacific Revolution Pioneer2
Developing Winning Ways for Women’s Sport: New Zealand’s National Netball Team2
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
Strategic Role of Taiwanese Acrobatics in the Cultural Diplomacy of the Republic of China since the Cold War2
The Nationalization of Algerian Football following Independence, 1962–19822
The (Not So) United Soccer of Atlanta: An Early History of Class Distinction and Racial Separatism in Organized Youth Soccer2
Festive Federalism: Race, Nation, and Neoliberal Aesthetics at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games2
Australia’s Game: The History of Australian Football2
The Emergence and Development of Netball in Jamaica, 1909–19412
Distance Education for the Public during Turkey’s Early Republican Period: Physical Education Lessons on Radio2
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
Sports in South America: A History1
Chadwick: A Man of Many Parts1
Tunnel and Crossing: The Future Road of the Olympics under Tokyo 2020 ‘+1’1
Transnational Mediation of Sports: Attention and Verbal Framing of Men’s Handball Teams and Athletes on Danish, German, and Romanian Online Sports News Sites1
Ankō Itosu: The Man, the Master, the Myth, Biography of a Legend1
Historical Overview: Playable Female Athlete Characters in Sport Simulation Videogames1
The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics1
Introduction1
The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First Reconsidered The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First reconsidered , edited by David Kirk and Patr1
Building European Fraternity Through Gymnastics: The Establishment of the Bureau Des Fédérations Européennes de Gymnastiques, 1863–19131
What Factors Determine the Success or Failure of ‘Cross-Border’ Career Development of Chinese Retired Olympic Champions? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis1
Olympic Truce during the Nagano Olympics: Between Diplomacy and Public Diplomacy of the International Olympic Committee1
A Game Taken Seriously: The Foundations of Yorkshire’s Cricketing Power1
The Sporting Club Maccabi de Paris in the Interwar Period (1924–1939): The Path of a Zionist Club1
Modern Life-Building as a Biopower Strategy: Developing Sports Spaces in Urban, Rural and Industrial Areas in Turkey1
Introduction1
Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age1
A Runner’s Journey1
‘I See the Struggle against Race Supremacy and Racial Inequality as World-Wide’: Anti-Apartheid Campaigns, Civil Rights Struggles, and the 1961 Track and Field Tours of South Africa1
Soccer and Society in Dublin: A History of Association Football in Ireland’s Capital1
Aerobics Made in Poland: Women’s Mass Leisure Activity in the Socialist State, 1983–19891
A Supplementary Sport? Towards a Historical Analysis of the Development of Badminton in New Zealand, c. 1870–19391
Introduction: Africa in the Boxing Ring1
Identifying Contextual Factors That Informed Planning and System Development for School-Based Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Education: A Realist Evaluation1
The Olympic Movement and Safeguarding Athletes: Exploring South Korea’s Journey to Protect Athletes1
Sports and Lao-Viet Contact and Conflict in the 1930s1
Archaeology of Historic Football Grounds: A Case Study of the 19 May Stadium in Turkey1
Historical Transformations of the Palestinian Civil Society: The Case of Sports Clubs in the West Bank1
Evolution of Professional Football Management in the People’s Republic of China from 1992 to 20161
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 the1
Traditional and Modern Sports in the Forging of Respectability in Nineteenth-Century Spain1
‘The Cheering Was Loud and Long’: Practical Feminism and the England Women’s Hockey Tour of Australia in 19271
‘Know the Game—Boxing’: Boxing in Colonial Kenya, 1895–19631
A ‘Rebel’ on the Run: Kenyan Gambles on Intercollegiate Athletics, Apartheid Sport, and US Road Racing of the 1980s – The Case of Samson Obwocha1
Modern Sports in Asia: Cultural Perspectives,1
Römische Gladiatorenbilder: Studien zu den Gladiatorenreliefs der späten Republik und der Kaiserzeit aus Italien1
Sports and Recreation in the Modern Industrial Campuses of the Early Republican Turkey (1923–1945)1
El deporte en la Grecia antigua: aspectos sociopolíticos y culturales (Sport in Ancient Greece: socio-political and cultural aspects)1
The Bumpy Road to World Athletics: Foundation, People, Policies1
Dawn of the War on Steroids1
Major League Baseball Labour Conflict and the Popularization of Fantasy Baseball1
Chamonix 1924: The First Winter Olympics1
A Dilemma: Women in Turkish Sport News Amidst Modernization and Traditionalism1
The Sociohistorical Challenges to the Development of Women’s Football in Poland1
The History of Outdoor Learning in Canada1
Remembering Brazil @Mexico1970: Social Media & Collective Memory Making in Times of COVID-191
A History of the British Sporting Journalist, c.1850-1939 James Catton, Sports Reporter1
Sport or Spectacle? The Harlem Globetrotters’ 1955 Visit to Israel1
¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Laagues/En los barrios y las grandes ligas1
‘God Bless Joan Payson’: The Surprising Coverage of the First Woman to Buy a Sports Team1
Correction1
‘Cheap, Scientific and Free From Danger’: Accounting for the Development of Field Hockey in Aotearoa New Zealand1
A History of World Taekwondo-Approved Competition Uniforms1
How Pure Was Romanian Rugby? Minority, Majority and Extremists in Romanian Interwar Rugby1
The Sport Hero Concept in Czechoslovakia: The Phenomenon of Emil Zátopek, 1948–19561
Sport for All in Brazil in the 1970s: The Institutionalisation of a Government Policy for Mass Sport1
Sister Rose Ann Fleming: An Unlikely Point Guard and Gender-Holistic Servant-Leader1
Football and Black Identity: Lifestyle Construction in A Voz da Raça in São Paulo, Brazil, in 19331
Racialized Marketing in the Athletic Apparel Industry: The Convergence of Sneaker Promotion and Black Culture in the United States1
The Girl with the Torch: The Life Story of Gymnast Karin Lindberg Lindén0
Architects in Enjoyment: Fun and Politics in the Swedish Cycling Experience, 1918–390
Media Framing of Women’s Football in Nigeria from the Early Twentieth Century to Present0
The Icy Road towards the First Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix 19240
Channelling Soft Power: The Qatar 2022 World Cup, Migrant Workers, and International Image0
Dead or Alive: How Amateurism Shaped Marathons in Norway, 1896–19060
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
The Impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on China and the Olympic Movement: The Legacy0
Mass Mobilization, Non-Competition and Proletarian Expertise: Mass Callisthenics and the Contested Egalitarian Politics in the Early People’s Republic of China, 1949–19760
Non-Racial Sport in South Africa: A Documentary Analysis of the Struggle for International Recognition, 1946–19710
National Mourning: The First Norwegian Sports Boycott in 19050
Olympic Infighting: An Exploration of Power Games between Leaders of International Sport Federations and the International Olympic Committee0
The Forthright Political Stance of Sport for Development in Korean Official Development Assistance0
Transactionality, Opportunism and the Third Generation’s Emotional Patriotism. Deservingness and Transnational Football Players in the Polish National Team0
The Founder of the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) Choi Hong Hi: An Exploration of Fiction and Fact0
Daciada and Winter Sports in Romania, 1976–19890
The Emergence of the Swedish Horse-Riding School from the Mid-Twentieth Century0
The Aborted Project for the European Games in the 1960s and 1970s0
From Cultural Import to Flourishing Sport: A Comprehensive History of DanceSport in China (1864–2023)0
The Sidesaddle: The Unlikely Emblem of Equestrian Empowerment0
Reading Le Jingyi’s Back: The Creation and Construction of the Sino-Steroid Spectre in the Western Media in the Post–Cold War Era0
Alain Corbin’s Approach: Reconstructing the Life of ‘Wilhelm Sonderegger, Teacher’0
Sports in Africa, Past and Present0
Empire at Play: The United States’ Cultural Influence on Nicaragua’s National Sports’ Identity0
Via Olympica: A Comprehensive View on the Origin and Development of Climbing Competitions0
‘Is Hockey Moving with the Times?’ Amateurism, the All England Women’s Hockey Association and Field Hockey at the Olympic Games, 1972–19960
The Sportization of Rowing and Swimming in the Tietê River (São Paulo, Brazil, 1899–1949)0
The Early Cultural Evolution of Baseball in Korea (1876–1945): Unilateral Product of Cultural Imperialism or Multilateral Process?0
Negotiating the Space between East and West: Sport and Gender Politics in Swiss Women’s Artistic Gymnastics in the Cold War Era0
Mongolian Wrestling (Bukh) during the Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries0
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
‘We are Grateful for the Opportunity to Act as Ambassadors for Our Club and Our Country’: Sporting Hospitality during the Northern Ireland Conflict0
Invention, Interpretation, and Diffusion: A Transnational Framework for the Development of Netball, 1895–19260
From Balls and Hoops to Coconuts and Tambourines: Protagonisms and Paradoxes of European Coach Ilona Peuker on Brazilian Floors0
Local Netball Histories in Twentieth Century Cape Province, South Africa0
Historical Review of Professional Football Migration Trends from Uganda in the Era of Liberalized Sport Labour Migration, 1964-20220
Counterpunch: The Cultural Battles Over Heavyweight Prizefighting in the American West0
Netball in Zimbabwe: Towards a Social History0
Against the Dangers of Gender Equality: The Position of the Holy See on Public Female Gymnastics in Germany and Italy during the Interwar Period0
Sports Diplomacy and Propaganda in Turkish Foreign Policy in the Early Republican Period0
The Sporting Battalion Athletes in the Defence of Madrid During the Spanish Civil War 10
1932 Olympic Games: The Participation of a Unique Brazilian Athlete0
Modern Visions of Physical Education: The Dissemination and Institutionalization of Polish Enlightenment Publications0
‘We Didn’t Kill Any Babies’: The 1988 Rebel Track and Field Tour of South Africa0
Institutional Change in the Governance of Chinese Football: The Era of ‘Top-Level Design’ Under the Leadership of Xi Jinping0
The Role of Clubs in Structuring French Sport: Case Study of Racing Club de France (1882–1908)0
A Historical Review of Elite Sport Development in Hong Kong0
Populism and Professionalism in Brazilian Football during Getulio Vargas’s Regime (1930–1945)0
Gladiatori: una giornata di spettacoli0
‘Who Walked against Time’: Nineteenth Century Intersections of Pedestrianism and Medicine0
Czech Hercules: Gustav Frištenský, ‘Musculinity’, the Others and Visual Pleasure around 19000
Switzerland’s Century-Long Rise as the Hub of Global Sport Administration0
The State and Canadian Cultural Nationalism: Protecting Canadian Football0
Regulating, Controlling and Using New Financial Inflows: The Introduction of a Modern Licensing Scheme in Swiss Professional Football (1992–2010)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
Entrepreneurial Goals: Development and Africapitalism in Ghanaian Soccer Academies0
Olympic Winter Games in Non-Western Cities: State, Sport and Cultural Diplomacy in Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 20220
Enforced Ostracism? Analysis of the International Sports Organizations’ Reactions to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine0
Between Passion and Civic Duty: Polish Politics and Sport in Szczecin, 1945–19500
Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region: Domination, Resistance, Accommodation0
Tracing the Historical Contours of Black Muscular Christianity and American Sport0
The Inheritance and Dissemination of Wushu Culture in the Global Era0
In Pursuit of Prestige: The International Olympic Committee’s Peace Efforts in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–1994)0
Ernest Wilimowski – Polish and German National Team Player with an Unspecified Nationality0
An Evaluation of Turkish Wrestling History during the Ottoman Empire0
Examination of the Sportification Process of Aerobic and Its Competitive History0
Introduction0
A Vision of Macau’s Football through the Symbolic Legacy of the Portuguese Presence0
From Entrepreneurial Origins to Professional Museum: A Practitioner’s Perspective on Field Hockey’s Sporting Heritage at The Hockey Museum, England0
Sexuality and Eugenics in Female Gymnastics in the Mid-Twentieth Century in Uruguay0
Analysis of the Cancellation of the 2019 East Asian Youth Games in Taiwan0
The Evolution of Hanne Wassermann’s ‘ Gymnastik Methode ’ in Vienna’s Golden Autumn0
Through the Lens of the Trainer-Masseurs: Australia’s Incongruous Engagement with the Olympic Amateur Ethos0
Athletes in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945–19920
Bloodline Organization of Disseminating Chin Woo Athletic to Nanyang: From Cultural Matrix China to SEA0
A Seemingly Endless Debate? The Establishment of Golf Courses in Taiwan0
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
‘Winners, Regardless’?: Racial Politics, Civil Rights Struggles, and the 1950 Track and Field Tour of South Africa0
Forging a Link between Competitive Gaming, Sport and the Olympics: History and New Developments0
The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts , by Raul Sanchez Garcia0
Jorabin, a Sport or a Battle (from the Past to the Present)0
The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia: Sport, Nationalism and the State0
Origin Stories: Tracing the Development of Netball in Victoria during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century0
County Club Finances and the Decline of Amateur Cricketers in England0
The 1928 Olympic Winter Games in St Moritz: Tourism, Diplomacy and Domestic Politics0
Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa0
Media Framing of Race and Football in Colonial Nigeria: 1914 to 1950s0
Women’s Competitive Sport in Iran: Unravelling Four Decades of Discursive Evolution, 1979–20200
The Voice of the Athlete in History: An Overview0
Football and Labour Relations in Perón’s Argentina, 1946–19550
Northeast Asian Modern Martial Arts: An Embodied Synthesis of Virtue Ethics and Deontology0
‘Aikido Practitioners in Every Country Should Change and Unite with the Tradition’: Kisshomaru Ueshiba, Historical Memory, and the Internationalization of Aikido, 1948–19840
The Financial Impact of World Series Cricket on Australia’s State Cricket Associations, 1974–19820
Olympic Philately: Reading the 1896 Athens Olympics from Postage Stamps0
‘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
Sport in the Service of Propaganda: Social and Political Conditions of Sport in Rural Poland, 1945–19560
‘Pommel Horse Rebels and Apartheid’s Friends’ – American Gymnasts and the International Anti-Apartheid Sports Boycott Against South Africa, 1970–19900
Sustainable Local Operation of Chin Woo Athletic Association in Singapore and Malaysia0
Physical Culture and the Process of Human Improvement in Post-Revolutionary Russia0
The Republic of China’s Naming Struggle in the Olympics (1949–1972)0
‘This Is Not a Problem but an Issue’: Chinese-Born Table Tennis Players Representing Another Country at the Olympics, 1988–20200
Historicizing Machoism in Swedish Ice Hockey0
Estranged: Notes on the Historical Development of the Relationship between Players and Manufacturers of Ice Hockey Equipment in Canada0
The 1968 Olympic Games: Tourism as Part of Nation Branding in Mexico0
The Legacy of Sports Nationalism in South Korean Sport0
The Failed Decolonization of Egyptian Basketball, 1920–19520
Sporting Diaspora: Reconstructing Goan Field Hockey History Through the Exploits of Lusitanians Sporting Club, 1909–19640
From Funerals to Flares: Europeanisation of Finnish Football Supporter Culture0
Indigenous Public History: Cherbourg’s Marching Girls0
The Matilda Effect0
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
The Institutional Position of Athletes in the Governance Networks of the Olympic Movement in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom0
Sports Facility Development and Politics in Budapest since 19450
‘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
Paternalistic Industrialization: Biopower, Physical Culture, and Sports in Industrial Planning Discourse (1770–1930)0
The Revolt of the Black Athlete: 50 th Anniversary Edition, with a New Introduction and Afterword0
Transnational Athletes – Historical Perspectives0
Sport and History: Continuity and Change. Local Stories to Explain Global History0
Bear Bryant, Sam Cunningham and Popular Memory of the Civil Rights Movement0
Marion Jackson’s Conflicted Sacrifice: The Atlanta Daily World’s Black Southern Sportswriter on the Tension between Integration and HBCU Sport0
From Motions to Missions: Interrogating Sport Organization Annual Reports as Works of Sport Memory0
‘A Fine Solidarity in the Life of the Countryside’: The Ashbees and Sport in the Cotswolds, 1902–19070
Bold Ambitions, Austere Realities: On the Unfulfilled Plans for the Warsaw Olympic Games0
Did the 1904 Entente Cordiale Originate in Bordeaux Thanks to Sports in 1895? Reflections on Sport Diplomacy0
Making Refereeing Global? How FIFA’s International Courses for Referees Helped Lay the Groundwork for Football’s Commercialization, 1948–19760
Martial Arts Diplomacy: Japanese Judo Delegations and ‘Martial Arts Missionaries’ in Norway, 1945–19800
The Institutional Development of the Philippine Olympic Movement and the Current Rise of Its Olympic Athletes0
Summit Diplomacy: US-Soviet Mountaineering Exchanges, 1974–19890
Visualising Sport: ‘Visual Turns’, Visual Texts, Visual Culture0
Inaugurating ‘Good Feeling between the United States and South Africa’: The 1931 All-White Tour of South Africa0
The Environmental Reimagining of Olympic Sarajevo0
Sport and Social Difference in Vienna around 1900: On the Historical Significance of Otto Herschmann0
Football’s Forgotten Years: Reclaiming the AFL Competition’s Earliest Era – 1870 to 18960
The Long Economic Thread: Two Millennia of Commercialism and Sport0
Stakeholder Engagement in Sport Policy Decision Making in Taiwan during the COVID-19 Pandemic0
Holding Their Own? Assessing the Merger of Men’s and Women’s Field Hockey in England0
Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Kentucky Basketball0
No Foreign Game: Association Football and the Making of Irish Identities0
Flexible Positional Superiority of Whiteness in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution: A Foucauldian Genealogy on the Atlanta Beat, 2001–20030
The Games That Never Happened: Social Reception and Press Coverage of the Kraków Bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics (2012–2014)0
Umpires, Referees, Judges and Stewards: Changing Modes of Judgment and Arbitration in English Sport c.1600–c.19000
On the Kicking Techniques of Pankration0
National Mythscapes and Popular New Zealand Rugby Histories: Representing the 1986 Cavaliers0
The Rise of Cool Japan: The Representation of Japanese and American Athletes in Kuroko no Basuke: Extra Game0
‘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
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
An Olympic Fairytale: The Zimbabwean Women’s Field Hockey Victory at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games0
Modernization Through Leisure and Sports: The Case of Sümerbank Industrial Campuses in Turkey0
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