Andrea Pollack's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds

In the record

Andrea Pollack (later Pinske; 8 May 1961 – 13 March 2019) was a butterfly swimmer from East Germany who won three Olympic gold medals. The birth-card coordinate for May 8 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of Andrea Pollack's 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for Germany across 1976 and 1980. 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 Andrea Pollack (Q238749), not a reading of character. 1976: gold in swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – women's 200 metre butterfly in competitive swimming. 1976: gold in swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay in competitive swimming. 1980: gold in swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay in competitive swimming.

• 1976 swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – women's 200 metre butterfly (competitive swimming)
• 1976 swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay (competitive swimming)
• 1980 swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay (competitive swimming)

The Jack of Diamonds coordinate

Andrea Pollack was born May 8 (1961-05-08). Month 5 and day 8 give solar value 37, which is the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1961 is unused. The Jack of Diamonds does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Andrea Pollack for Germany. Quoted system copy for the Jack of Diamonds, not a biography of Andrea Pollack: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works. You bring new ways of thinking about resources and success. You're the one who shifts how people relate to money. You inspire financial breakthroughs.

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Andrea Pollack in the public record

Pollack was born in 1961 in Schwerin. She was a member of SC Dynamo Berlin. She who won two gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at age fifteen. She won the individual 200 m butterfly and with the women's relay team in the 4×100 m medley. Pollack also collected two silver medals at the Montreal Games. Pollack won a gold in the 4×100 m medley relay and a silver in the 100 m butterfly at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. In 1978 she twice broke the world record in the women's 200 m butterfly. In 1998, several former East German swimmers, including Pollack, went public with accusations against their coaches and physicians that they were systematically doped.

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

Where the record meets the 3 of Spades

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 Andrea Pollack, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

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Andrea Pollack (later Pinske; 8 May 1961 – 13 March 2019) was a butterfly swimmer from East Germany who won three Olympic gold medals.

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

Also on the record

1. Pollack married Norbert Pinske who competed in cycling.
2. Their son, Michael Pinske, went to the 2008 Summer Olympics as a judoka.

Other multi-gold Summer Olympians with this card

• Susie O'Neill — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
• Valentina Vezzali — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in fencing
• Jon Henricks — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
• Denis Pankratov — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
• Hamza Yerlikaya — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in amateur wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestling
• Helmer Mörner — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in equestrian sport
• Li Xiaoxia — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in table tennis
• Wang Qianyi — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in synchronized swimming

FAQ

What is Andrea Pollack's birth card?

The Jack of Diamonds. May 8 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Andrea Pollack'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 Andrea Pollack's dates and medals come from?

Birth date 1961-05-08 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Andrea Pollack, 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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