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Michael Klim's Birth Card: The King of Clubs
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 George Klim, OAM (born 13 August 1977) is an Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, and former world record-holder of the 1990s and 2000s. The birth-card coordinate for August 13 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Michael Klim's 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.
Summer Olympic gold record
Wikidata records 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for Australia across 2000. 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 Klim (Q715561), not a reading of character. 2000 2000 Summer Olympics: gold in 2000 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 2000: gold in swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming. 2000: gold in swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming.
- 2000 2000 Summer Olympics — 2000 Summer Olympics (Q212434)
- 2000 swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay (competitive swimming)
- 2000 swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay (competitive swimming)
The King of Clubs coordinate
Michael Klim was born August 13 (1977-08-13). 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 1977 is unused. The King of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Michael Klim for Australia. Quoted system copy for the King of Clubs, not a biography of Michael Klim: 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.
Michael Klim in the public record
He is known as the creator of straight-arm freestyle. Klim was born in Gdynia, Poland, in 1977. Shortly after his birth, his father was appointed trade attaché to the consulate of the Polish People's Republic in Bombay (now Mumbai) and together with his older sister Klim learned to swim there. The family returned to Gdynia after five years in India. The family left Poland in 1987 and lived in Hamburg, Germany, where as a 10-year-old Klim competed nationally for a local swimming club. His father applied for a business visa for Australia, but as the process was slow, also applied for Canadian visas for the family and they soon moved to Toronto. Nine months later, their Australian visa was granted. The family arrived in Melbourne on 30 April 1989.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Michael Klim (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 Klim, and not a forecast of a gold medal.
Cards in Michael Klim's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- K♣ — Birth Card: The Master Leader
- 8♠ — Karma — Environment: The Powerful Mind
- 2♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Skeptical Partner
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- J♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 10♣ — Life Spread — 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.
Michael George Klim, OAM (born 13 August 1977) is an Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, and former world record-holder of the 1990s and 2000s.
Paired on shared wording: holder, world.
Also on the record
- Klim was educated at the University High School, and Wesley College, where he was later employed as the college's elite head coach of swimming.
- Klim was first selected to represent Australia in the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, while still a student at Wesley College.
- For his achievements he was named the Male Swimmer of the Year by the magazine Swimming World in 1997.
- In December 1999, he twice set a world record time – of 52.03s, then 51.81s two days later – in the 100m butterfly, in International Swimming Federation-sanctioned solo swims during a swim meet at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in Canberra.
Other multi-gold Summer Olympians with this card
- Birgit Fischer — 8 Summer Olympic gold medals in canoeing and kayaking
- Boris Shakhlin — 5 Summer Olympic gold medals in artistic gymnastics
- Michael Gross — 5 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Pablo Morales — 5 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Paul Elvstrøm — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in sailing
- Ricky Berens — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Stephanie Rice — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Steve Clark — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Venus Williams — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in tennis
- Alex Baumann — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- Chris Hoy — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in track cycling, cycle sport, auto racing
- Gary Ilman — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- 16 more Olympians in this set share this card.
FAQ
- What is Michael Klim's birth card?
- The King of Clubs. August 13 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Michael Klim'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 Klim's dates and medals come from?
- Birth date 1977-08-13 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Michael Klim, 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 (Q715561; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Michael Klim; infobox match). Birth date 1977-08-13 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.