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Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate whether the sounds of footsteps can be used to predict the vertical ground reaction force profiles during running. Thirty-seven recreational runners performed overground running, and their sounds of footsteps were recorded from four microphones, while the vertical ground reaction force was recorded using a force plate. We generated nine different combinations of microphone data, ranging from individual recordings up to all four microphones combined. We trained machine learning models using these microphone combinations and predicted the ground reaction force profiles by a leave-one-out approach on the subject level. There were no significant differences in the prediction accuracy between the different microphone combinations (p &lt; 0.05). Moreover, the machine learning model was able to predict the ground reaction force profiles with a mean Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.99 (range 0.79\u20130.999), mean relative root-mean-square error of 9.96% (range 2\u201323%) and mean accuracy to define rearfoot or forefoot strike of 77%. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of using the sounds of footsteps in combination with machine learning algorithms based on Fourier transforms to predict the ground reaction force curves. 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