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Alex Baumann's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born April 21, 1964

Canada

The Master Leader

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

Alexander Baumann, (born April 21, 1964) is a Canadian sports administrator and former competitive swimmer who won two gold medals and set two world records at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The birth-card coordinate for April 21 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Alex Baumann's 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for Canada across 1984. 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 Alex Baumann (Q724725), not a reading of character. 1984 1984 Summer Olympics: gold in 1984 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1984: gold in swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – men's 200 metre individual medley in competitive swimming. 1984: gold in swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – men's 400 metre individual medley in competitive swimming.

The King of Clubs coordinate

Alex Baumann was born April 21 (1964-04-21). Month 4 and day 21 give solar value 26, which is the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1964 is unused. The King of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Alex Baumann for Canada. Quoted system copy for the King of Clubs, not a biography of Alex Baumann: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it. You command through clarity and competence. You're the authority, the decision-maker, the one people look to for direction. Your thinking is decisive and clear.

Live King of Clubs meaning page

Alex Baumann in the public record

In 2007, he was regarded by the CBC, the national broadcaster, as "the greatest swimmer in Canadian history", as the twin Olympic gold medals were Canada's first in swimming since 1912. Since he retired from competitive swimming, he has worked as an administrator in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In May 2021, Baumann was appointed Chief Executive of Swimming Australia. At the end of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics held in 2021, Baumann subsequently resigned the position of CEO in August 2021, citing health reasons. Born in Prague (former Czechoslovakia), Baumann was raised in Canada after his family moved there in 1969 following the Prague Spring. The family settled in Sudbury, Ontario, where, at the age of nine, Baumann became involved in competitive swimming, training at Laurentian University. By the time he was seventeen, Baumann owned 38 Canadian swimming records and the world record in the 200-metre individual medley. He accepted a swimming scholarship and entered Indiana University to train under its legendary coach James "Doc" Counsilman; however with chronic pain in his shoulder, he made the decision to return to Sudbury to continue physical therapy and training under the direction of his long-time coach, Dr.

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

Where the record meets the King of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Alex Baumann, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Alex Baumann's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

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.

You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it. You command through clarity and competence. You're the authority, the decision-maker, the one people look to for direction. Your thinking is decisive and clear.

K♣ — Birth Card, from the published King of Clubs meaning

He accepted a swimming scholarship and entered Indiana University to train under its legendary coach James "Doc" Counsilman; however with chronic pain in his shoulder, he made the decision to return to Sudbury to continue physical therapy and training under the direction of his long-time coach, Dr. Jeno Tihanyi.

Paired on shared wording: decision, direction.

Also on the record

  1. Jeno Tihanyi.
  2. Forced to sit out the 1982 World Aquatic Championships in Ecuador due to his injury, Baumann's training progressed enough that he was able to win gold in both 200 and 400-metre individual medley events at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia, lowering his world record in the 200-metre event to 2:02.25 in the process.
  3. It was here that he met his future wife Australian swimmer Tracey Taggart.
  4. He also won the 400-metre individual medley event at the 1983 World University Games.

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FAQ

What is Alex Baumann's birth card?
The King of Clubs. April 21 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Alex Baumann'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 Alex Baumann's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1964-04-21 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Alex Baumann, 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 (3 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 (Q724725; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Alex Baumann; infobox match). Birth date 1964-04-21 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.