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Gary Ilman's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born August 13, 1943

United States

Died August 16, 2014

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

Gary Steven Ilman (August 13, 1943 – August 16, 2014) was an American competition swimmer, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder in two relay events. The birth-card coordinate for August 13 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Gary Ilman's 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for United States across 1964. 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 Gary Ilman (Q373006), not a reading of character. 1964 1964 Summer Olympics: gold in 1964 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1964: gold in swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming. 1964: gold in swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming.

The King of Clubs coordinate

Gary Ilman was born August 13 (1943-08-13). Month 8 and day 13 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 1943 is unused. The King of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Gary Ilman for United States. Quoted system copy for the King of Clubs, not a biography of Gary Ilman: 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

Gary Ilman in the public record

He would later coach swimming, serving as a Head Coach at Colorado State, and work in the electronics industry. Ilman attended and swam for Long Beach State, but earlier swam for Hall of Fame Coach Nort Thornton Jr. at Foothill Junior College in Los Altos, California. At Long Beach State, where he competed for two years after Foothill Junior College, he helped bring the team to Top 5 finishes at the Division II NCAA national swimming championships, with a second place finish in 1965 and a fourth place finish in 1966. During his tenure at Long Beach, he won three individual championships in 1965, including the 100m freestyle, the 200m freestyle, and the 100m butterfly. In 1966, he showed consistency and dominance in the stroke and repeated as the champion of the 100m butterfly champion, while won a fourth individual event requiring diverse stroke mastery, the 200m individual medley. During his college years, Ilman made his international swimming debut as a member of the U.S. national swimming team at the 1963 Pan American Games in São Paulo, Brazil. He was a member of the U.S. squad that won the gold medal in the men's 4×200-metre freestyle relay, together with his American teammates Richard McDonough, David Lyons and Ed Townsend. Ilman represented the United States at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, where he won gold medals as a member of the first-place U.S. teams in the men's 4×100-meter freestyle relay and men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay.

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

Where the record meets the 2 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 Gary Ilman, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Gary Ilman's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, K♣, so it adds no further cards to the path.

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 hold two pressures at once and still make a call that can live in the world.

2♠ — Karma — Displacement, fixed to the K♣, from the published 2 of Spades meaning

Gary Steven Ilman (August 13, 1943 – August 16, 2014) was an American competition swimmer, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder in two relay events.

Paired on shared wording: holder, world.

Also on the record

  1. In both freestyle relay events, Ilman and his American teammates broke existing world records.
  2. Steve Clark, Mike Austin, Ilman and Don Schollander set a new world record of 3:33.2 in the 4×100; then Clark, Roy Saari, Ilman and Schollander set a new world mark of 7:52.1 in the 4×200.
  3. In individual competition, he finished fourth in the 100-metre freestyle event final.
  4. In a controversial outcome, both Ilman and German swimmer Hans-Joachim Klein were officially timed at 54.0 seconds (to 1/10 of a second), and were still tied at 54.00 (to 1/100 of a second) using the new unofficial electronic timing, but the judges on their own initiative awarded the bronze medal solely to Klein on the basis of the unofficial electronic time taken to 1/1,000 of a second.

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FAQ

What is Gary Ilman's birth card?
The King of Clubs. August 13 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Gary Ilman'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 Gary Ilman's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1943-08-13 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Gary Ilman, 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 (Q373006; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Gary Ilman; infobox match). Birth date 1943-08-13 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.