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Joe Hudepohl's Birth Card: The 4 of Clubs
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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
Joseph Bernard Hudepohl (born November 16, 1973) is an American former competition swimmer, three-time Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder. The birth-card coordinate for November 16 is the 4 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Joe Hudepohl'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 1992 and 1996. 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 Joe Hudepohl (Q548196), not a reading of character. 1992 1992 Summer Olympics: gold in 1992 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1992: gold in swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming. 1996 1996 Summer Olympics: gold in 1996 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1996: gold in swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming.
- 1992 1992 Summer Olympics — 1992 Summer Olympics (Q212434)
- 1992 swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay (competitive swimming)
- 1996 1996 Summer Olympics — 1996 Summer Olympics (Q212434)
- 1996 swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay (competitive swimming)
The 4 of Clubs coordinate
Joe Hudepohl was born November 16 (1973-11-16). Month 11 and day 16 give solar value 17, which is the 4 of Clubs (The Systematic Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1973 is unused. The 4 of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Joe Hudepohl for United States. Quoted system copy for the 4 of Clubs, not a biography of Joe Hudepohl: You put thinking into an order other people can actually use. You organize thoughts into systems. You build frameworks, structures, and processes. Your mind naturally creates order from chaos.
Joe Hudepohl in the public record
Hudepohl is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, and was raised in the suburb of Finneytown. He is a 1992 alumnus of Saint Xavier High School in Cincinnati and graduated from Stanford University in 1997. Joe Hudepohl was the youngest member of the 1992 United States swimming team that competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He won a gold medal as a member of the victorious 400-meter freestyle relay team, and earned a bronze medal as part of the 4×200-meter freestyle relay team. Hudepohl also represented the United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he won a gold medal as a member of the 4×200-meter freestyle relay team. Hudepohl's Olympic accomplishments followed a collegiate and prep swimming career. He was named National High School Swimmer of the Year in 1992 and won multiple NCAA championships while competing for Stanford University. He was also a member of two American record relay teams and part of a world record 400-meter freestyle relay team at the 1995 Pan Pacific Championships.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Joe Hudepohl (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 8 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 Joe Hudepohl, and not a forecast of a gold medal.
Cards in Joe Hudepohl's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 4♣ — Birth Card: The Systematic Builder
- 6♥ — Karma — Environment: The Devoted Caregiver
- 5♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Dynamic Innovator
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- J♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 6♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 10♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- A♥ — Life Spread — 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.
Strategic and powerful thinking
Joseph Bernard Hudepohl (born November 16, 1973) is an American former competition swimmer, three-time Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: olympic.
Also on the record
- Hudepohl presently works in the growth equity team of Atlanta Capital, a subsidiary of Eaton Vance.
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) List of Stanford University people World record progression 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay Eyes on the Gold U.S.
- National High School Records
Other multi-gold Summer Olympians with this card
- Don Schollander — 7 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Hans Günter Winkler — 5 Summer Olympic gold medals in equestrian sport
- Aleksandr Popov — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Jane Barkman — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Alexei Nemov — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in artistic gymnastics
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in golf, athletics, competitive swimming
- Svetlana Kolesnichenko — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in synchronized swimming
- Britta Steffen — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Győző Kulcsár — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in fencing
- Johan Hübner von Holst — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in shooting sports
- Kong Linghui — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in table tennis
- Lars Hall — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in modern pentathlon
- 4 more Olympians in this set share this card.
FAQ
- What is Joe Hudepohl's birth card?
- The 4 of Clubs. November 16 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Joe Hudepohl'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 Joe Hudepohl's dates and medals come from?
- Birth date 1973-11-16 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Joe Hudepohl, 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 (Q548196; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Joe Hudepohl; infobox match). Birth date 1973-11-16 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.