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Jim Montgomery's Birth Card: The 3 of Diamonds

4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born January 24, 1955

United States

The Success Communicator

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

James Paul Montgomery (born January 24, 1955) is an American former competition swimmer, four-time Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder. The birth-card coordinate for January 24 is the 3 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of Jim Montgomery'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 1976. 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 Jim Montgomery (Q626152), not a reading of character. 1976 1976 Summer Olympics: gold in 1976 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1976: gold in swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – men's 100 metre freestyle in competitive swimming. 1976: gold in swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay in competitive swimming. 1976: gold in swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming.

The 3 of Diamonds coordinate

Jim Montgomery was born January 24 (1955-01-24). Month 1 and day 24 give solar value 29, which is the 3 of Diamonds (The Success Communicator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1955 is unused. The 3 of Diamonds does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Jim Montgomery for United States. Quoted system copy for the 3 of Diamonds, not a biography of Jim Montgomery: You can make value visible without overselling the thing underneath. You're good at selling—ideas, products, yourself. You understand marketing and the psychology of desire. Your gift is making things feel valuable through how you present them.

Live 3 of Diamonds meaning page

Jim Montgomery in the public record

Montgomery was the first man to break the 50-second barrier (49.99) in the 100-meter freestyle, at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, where he won three gold medals and one bronze. Montgomery was born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Montgomery in Madison, Wisconsin, on January 24, 1955. He began swimming competitively around the age of nine at the Madison Central YMCA pool. He swam for Madison East High School, and held four Wisconsin state freestyle records by his High School Junior year, including the 50, 100, 200, and 400 freestyle. He was coached by Don Moerke at Madison East, and in club swimming by Pat Berry at the Madison Swim Club, switching to the Badger Dolphins the summer before his Junior year. While swimming with the Badger Dolphins Club during summers, Jim credited his coach Jack Pettinger with greatly improving his speed and conditioning.

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

Where the record meets the 2 of Diamonds

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 Jim Montgomery, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Jim Montgomery'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 name the exchange out loud and keep it fair for both sides. You understand value exchange and partnership in material terms. You're good at splitting bills, sharing assets, creating fair deals. Your mind works in reciprocity.

2♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune, fixed to the 3♦, from the published 2 of Diamonds meaning

He later renamed it the Lone Star Masters and in 1990, the name officially became Baylor/Lone Star Masters while Jim was working as Aquatic's Director at Baylor's Tom Landry Center in Dallas.

Paired on shared wording: name, working. This line comes from the Neptune position of the 9♣'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

  1. Jim helped lead Madison East to the 1971 Big Eight Conference title, and was voted a most valuable competitor at Madison's City Swimming Banquet in March 1971.
  2. In September, 1971, he was named the outstanding swimmer in Wisconsin by the Wisconsin Swimming Association and became a part of the five member all-state boys swimming team.
  3. Prior to the Olympics, Montgomery won five gold medals in freestyle events at the first World Championships in 1973 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and took medals in the 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay and the individual 100 meter freestyle at both the 1975 World Aquatics Championships in Cali, Colombia and the 1978 World Aquatics Championships in Berlin, Germany.
  4. From Yugoslavia in early September 1973, Montgomery went on to Indiana University Bloomington, where he majored in Business, and swam for Hall of Fame Coach Doc Counsilman for four years.

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FAQ

What is Jim Montgomery's birth card?
The 3 of Diamonds. January 24 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Jim Montgomery'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 Jim Montgomery's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1955-01-24 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Jim Montgomery, 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 (Q626152; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Jim Montgomery (swimmer); infobox match). Birth date 1955-01-24 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.