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John Hencken's Birth Card: The 3 of Clubs

5 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born May 29, 1954

United States

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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

John Frederick Hencken (born May 29, 1954) is an American former competition swimmer for Stanford University, three-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder primarily in the 100 and 200 meter breaststroke events. The birth-card coordinate for May 29 is the 3 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of John Hencken's 5 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 5 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for United States across 1972 and 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 John Hencken (Q502995), not a reading of character. 1972 1972 Summer Olympics: gold in 1972 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1972: gold in swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – men's 200 metre breaststroke in competitive swimming. 1976 1976 Summer Olympics: gold in 1976 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1976: gold in swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – men's 100 metre breaststroke in competitive swimming. 1976: gold in swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay in competitive swimming.

The 3 of Clubs coordinate

John Hencken was born May 29 (1954-05-29). Month 5 and day 29 give solar value 16, which is the 3 of Clubs (The Creative Communicator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1954 is unused. The 3 of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on John Hencken for United States. Quoted system copy for the 3 of Clubs, not a biography of John Hencken: You make a hard idea easy to say without stripping what it means. Complex ideas become clear through your expression. You have the gift of making difficult concepts accessible. Your creativity makes thinking feel alive.

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John Hencken in the public record

Hencken won five Olympic medals during his career in the 1972 Munich, and 1976 Montreal Olympics, including three golds. Hencken was born in Culver City, California, and began swimming to recover from an operation he had to remove a growth behind his knee. By 15, he lived in Kensington, California in the greater San Francisco area, where he swam for the Berkeley YMCA. At 16, Hencken set a National Junior Olympics record of 1:01.7 in the 100-yard breaststroke, though he had already broken a minute in the event, and had swum the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:14.6, just a second short of the Junior Olympic record. By 1970-71, he swam for Cupertino's Cupertino High School, in central Western California, graduating in 1972. By 1971, he did much of his more intensive training and competition with the Santa Clara Swim Club, about ten miles Northeast of Cupertino. He swam, though not continuously, for the Santa Clara Club from 1969 to 1980. Santa Clara Club was an age group team under Hall of fame Coach George Haines, who trained 26 future Olympians at Santa Clara including future Olympic medalists Mark Spitz, Greg Buckingham, Don Schollander, and Donna deVarona.

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

Where the record meets the 3 of Spades

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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.

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3♠ — Planetary Ruling Card, fixed to the 3♣, from the published 3 of Spades meaning

John Frederick Hencken (born May 29, 1954) is an American former competition swimmer for Stanford University, three-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder primarily in the 100 and 200 meter breaststroke events.

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

Also on the record

  1. Swimming for Cupertino High as a Senior in 1972, Hencken set a school record of 22.2 in the 50 freestyle, and swam a 1:00.9 in the 100 breast stroke, the best time in his central coast high school section.
  2. Hencken attended and swam for Stanford University under Hall of Fame Coach Jim Gaughran beginning in 1972, majoring in general engineering and product design, and graduated in 1977.
  3. He later completed his MBA at the University of Phoenix.
  4. During his years swimming for Stanford, Hencken won five NCAA titles in his signature stroke, with three in the 100-yard breast and two in the 200-yard breast events.

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FAQ

What is John Hencken's birth card?
The 3 of Clubs. May 29 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. John Hencken'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 John Hencken's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1954-05-29 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for John Hencken, 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 (5 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 (Q502995; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (John Hencken; infobox match). Birth date 1954-05-29 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.