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Michael Gross's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

5 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born June 17, 1964

West Germany

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

Michael Groß (born 17 June 1964), usually spelled Michael Gross in English, is a former competitive swimmer from Germany. The birth-card coordinate for June 17 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Michael Gross's 5 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 5 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for West Germany across 1984 and 1988. 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 Michael Gross (Q57404), not a reading of character. 1984 1984 Summer Olympics: gold in 1984 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1984: gold in swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – men's 100 metre butterfly in competitive swimming. 1984: gold in swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – men's 200 metre freestyle in competitive swimming. 1988 1988 Summer Olympics: gold in 1988 Summer Olympics in Q38108. 1988: gold in swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – men's 200 metre butterfly in competitive swimming.

The King of Clubs coordinate

Michael Gross was born June 17 (1964-06-17). Month 6 and day 17 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 1964 is unused. The King of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Michael Gross for West Germany. Quoted system copy for the King of Clubs, not a biography of Michael Gross: 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

Michael Gross in the public record

He is 201 centimetres (6 ft 7 in) tall, and received the nickname "The Albatross" for his especially long arms that gave him a total span of 2.13 metres. Gross, competing for West Germany, won three Olympic gold medals, two in 1984 and one in 1988 in the freestyle and butterfly events, in addition to two World Championship titles in 1982, two in 1986 and one in 1991. Gross was born in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, and trained as a member of the swimming club EOSC Offenbach. He was probably the finest swimmer in the world in the 200-meter butterfly race from 1981 to 1988. In this period he set four world records, won two world titles, four European titles and two Olympic gold medals. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Gross was one of the great athletes of the games. Gross easily won gold in the 200-meter freestyle, dominating the field. In the 100-meter butterfly, however, Gross pulled off a bit of an upset, winning over the favorite in the event, American Pablo Morales.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Michael Gross (swimmer) (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 Michael Gross, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Michael Gross'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 hold two pressures at once and still make a call that can live in the world. You naturally question any belief or claim. Your thinking is balanced between perspectives. You see multiple sides of truth.

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

List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame German records in swimming List of multiple Olympic medalists at a single Games World record progression 100 metres butterfly World record progression 100 metres freestyle World record progression 200 metres butterfly World record progression 200 metres freestyle World record progression 400 metres freestyle World record progression 800 metres freestyle World record progression 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay Michael Gross at World Aquatics Michael Gross at SwimRankings.net Michael Gross at the International Swimming Hall of Fame Michael Gross at Olympics.com Michael Gross at Olympedia Michael Gross at InterSportStats

Paired on shared wording: multiple, world.

Also on the record

  1. However, in the 200-meter butterfly, Gross himself was upset by a relative unknown, Australian Jon Sieben.
  2. The men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay race became one of the marquee events of the games, with Gross leading the German relay against the underdog American squad.
  3. Despite the fact that Gross swam the fastest relay leg in the event's history, the American team pulled off the upset, earning the title of the "Grossbusters." Gross won a total of thirteen medals at the World Championships (including five gold), thirteen gold medals at the European Championships and was elected German "Athlete of the Year" four times (1982, 1983, 1984 and 1988).
  4. He retired from professional swimming in 1991.

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FAQ

What is Michael Gross's birth card?
The King of Clubs. June 17 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Michael Gross'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 Michael Gross's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1964-06-17 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Michael Gross, 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 (Q57404; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Michael Gross (swimmer); infobox match). Birth date 1964-06-17 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.