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Chris von Saltza's Birth Card: The Ace of Spades

4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born January 13, 1944

United States

The Truth Pioneer

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

Susan Christina von Saltza (born January 13, 1944), also known by her married name Christina Olmstead, is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in four events. The birth-card coordinate for January 13 is the Ace of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of Chris von Saltza's 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for United States across 1960. 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 Chris von Saltza (Q240338), not a reading of character. 1960 1960 Summer Olympics: gold in 1960 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1960: gold in swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming. 1960: gold in swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay in competitive swimming. 1960: gold in swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – women's 400 metre freestyle in competitive swimming.

The Ace of Spades coordinate

Chris von Saltza was born January 13 (1944-01-13). Month 1 and day 13 give solar value 40, which is the Ace of Spades (The Truth Pioneer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1944 is unused. The Ace of Spades does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Chris von Saltza for United States. Quoted system copy for the Ace of Spades, not a biography of Chris von Saltza: You say the true thing early, before it has to become a crisis to be heard. Your mind is oriented toward finding what's real beneath appearances. You question everything. You're the one willing to challenge comfortable lies for uncomfortable truths.

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Chris von Saltza in the public record

As an age group swimmer, von Saltza swam for coach George Haines' Santa Clara Swim Club and led the club to multiple team championships at the nationals, in addition to winning nineteen individual Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) titles. She was featured on the July 21, 1958 cover of Sports Illustrated magazine as the "No. 1 U.S. Swimmer at the Age of 14." At the age of 16, she set the world record in the 400-meter freestyle at the U.S. Olympic trials, and proceeded to win four medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Individually, she won a gold medal in the women's 400-meter freestyle, and a silver in the 100-meter freestyle. She won two more gold medals as a member of the winning U.S. teams in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay and 4×100-meter medley relay. Both U.S. relay teams set new world records in their respective events.

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

Where the record meets the Ace 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 Chris von Saltza, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Chris von Saltza'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.

Ability to penetrate illusions and see truth

A♠ — Birth Card, from the published Ace of Spades meaning

As an age group swimmer, von Saltza swam for coach George Haines' Santa Clara Swim Club and led the club to multiple team championships at the nationals, in addition to winning nineteen individual Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) titles.

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

Also on the record

  1. A year prior to the Olympics, von Saltza won five gold medals at the 1959 Pan American Games.
  2. Her wins came in the 100-, 200-, and 400-meter freestyle, as well as the 4×100-meter freestyle and 4×100-meter medley relays.
  3. Von Saltza later attended Stanford University, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Asian history.
  4. Stanford, like most major American universities, had no women's swimming and diving team prior to the enactment of Title IX, and von Saltza effectively retired from competition swimming after the 1960 Olympics.

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FAQ

What is Chris von Saltza's birth card?
The Ace of Spades. January 13 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Chris von Saltza'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 Chris von Saltza's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1944-01-13 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Chris von Saltza, 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 (Q240338; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Chris von Saltza; infobox match). Birth date 1944-01-13 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.