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Aleksandr Popov's Birth Card: The 4 of Clubs

4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born November 16, 1971

Soviet Union

The Systematic Builder

A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Olympic medal.

In the record

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Popov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Попо́в, born 16 November 1971), better known as Alexander Popov, is a Russian former swimmer. The birth-card coordinate for November 16 is the 4 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Aleksandr Popov's 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for Soviet Union across 1992 and 1996. Only Summer Games gold medals count here. Winter-only careers and single-gold athletes are out of this pack. The medal list is a public award record for Aleksandr Popov (Q294676), not a reading of character. 1992: gold in swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – men's 100 metre freestyle in competitive swimming. 1992: gold in swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – men's 50 metre freestyle in competitive swimming. 1996: gold in swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – men's 100 metre freestyle in competitive swimming. 1996: gold in swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – men's 50 metre freestyle in competitive swimming.

The 4 of Clubs coordinate

Aleksandr Popov was born November 16 (1971-11-16). Month 11 and day 16 give solar value 17, which is the 4 of Clubs (The Systematic Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1971 is unused. The 4 of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Aleksandr Popov for Soviet Union. Quoted system copy for the 4 of Clubs, not a biography of Aleksandr Popov: You put thinking into an order other people can actually use. You organize thoughts into systems. You build frameworks, structures, and processes. Your mind naturally creates order from chaos.

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Aleksandr Popov in the public record

Widely considered the greatest sprint swimmer in history, Popov won gold in the 50-metre and 100 m freestyle at the 1992 Olympics and repeated the feat at the 1996 Olympics, and is the only male in Olympic games history to defend both titles. He held the world record in the 50 m for eight years, and the 100 m for six. In 2003, aged 31, he won 50 m and 100 m gold at the 2003 World Championships. Popov began swimming at age 8 at the Children and Youth Sports School of Fakel Sports Complex in Lesnoy, at that time afraid of water. However, his father insisted on him taking swimming lessons in that sports school, and in his own words, he has "been stuck there ever since". Popov started out as a backstroker but switched to freestyle when he joined Gennadi Touretski's squad in 1990 on the initiative by the head coach of the USSR National Team Gleb Petrov. He later moved from Russia to Australia to be with his coach. Popov won the men's 50 m and 100 m freestyle in the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, and repeated his victories in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, becoming the first man to do so since Johnny Weissmuller.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Aleksandr Popov (swimmer) (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 8 of Spades

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Cards in Aleksandr Popov's fixed path

Birth card and karma

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Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.

Strategic and powerful thinking

8♠ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler), fixed to the 4♣, from the published 8 of Spades meaning

Widely considered the greatest sprint swimmer in history, Popov won gold in the 50-metre and 100 m freestyle at the 1992 Olympics and repeated the feat at the 1996 Olympics, and is the only male in Olympic games history to defend both titles.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: olympic.

Also on the record

  1. He presented Touretski with his 1996 Olympic gold medal from the 100 m freestyle.
  2. "I have a title and I'm on the paper, but, you know, Gennadi hasn't gotten anything from Atlanta or from Barcelona," Popov said.
  3. "But I know how much this particular medal means for him, is worth for him." One month after the Atlanta Olympics, he was stabbed in the abdomen with a knife during a dispute with three Moscow street vendors.
  4. The knife sliced his artery, grazed one of his kidneys and damaged the pleura, the membrane that encases the lungs.

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FAQ

What is Aleksandr Popov's birth card?
The 4 of Clubs. November 16 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Aleksandr Popov's year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict Olympic medals?
No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast races, medals, character, or fate.
Where do Aleksandr Popov's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1971-11-16 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Aleksandr Popov, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Medal count (4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming) comes from Wikidata P1344 event claims with P166 Olympic gold, limited to Summer Games. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: Wikidata CC0 (Q294676; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Aleksandr Popov (swimmer); infobox match). Birth date 1971-11-16 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.