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Paul Elvstrøm's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

4 Summer Olympic gold medals in sailing

Born February 25, 1928

Denmark

Died December 7, 2016

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

Paul Bert Elvstrøm (25 February 1928 – 7 December 2016) was a Danish yachtsman and the founder of Elvstrøm Sails. The birth-card coordinate for February 25 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Paul Elvstrøm's 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in sailing.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in sailing for Denmark across 1948–1960. 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 Paul Elvstrøm (Q50893), not a reading of character. 1948: gold in sailing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Firefly in sailing. 1952: gold in sailing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Finn in sailing. 1956: gold in sailing at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Finn in sailing. 1960: gold in sailing at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Finn in sailing.

The King of Clubs coordinate

Paul Elvstrøm was born February 25 (1928-02-25). Month 2 and day 25 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 1928 is unused. The King of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Paul Elvstrøm for Denmark. Quoted system copy for the King of Clubs, not a biography of Paul Elvstrøm: 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.

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Paul Elvstrøm in the public record

He won four Olympic gold medals and thirteen world titles in a range of classes including Snipe, Soling, Star, Flying Dutchman, Finn, 505, and 5.5 Metre. For his achievements, Elvstrøm was chosen as "Danish Sportsman of the Century." Paul Elvstrøm was born, north of Copenhagen, in a house overlooking the sound between Denmark and Sweden. His father was a sea captain but died when Elvstrøm was young, and he was brought up by his mother along with a brother and sister. A second brother drowned at the age of 5 when he fell off a seawall near the family home. Growing up along the Øresund, Elvstrøm quickly became consumed by sailing, which began with crewing in a club fleet of small clinker keelboats. He was soon given an Oslo dinghy by a neighbour who realised Elvstrøm's mother was too poor to be able to buy one. In his book Elvstrøm Speaks on Yacht Racing he claimed to be ‘word blind’ and could not read or write when he was at school, which may have been due to dyslexia. It is clear that Elvstrøm considered schooling a distraction from sailing: "I was very bad in school," he said, "The only interest I had was in sailing fast…The teacher knew that if I was not at school, I was sailing." After leaving school he became a member of the Hellerup Sailing Club, where he gained a reputation as an excellent sailer.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Paul Elvstrøm (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 Paul Elvstrøm, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Paul Elvstrøm'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.

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

In 2016, Dan Ibsen, the executive director of the Royal Danish Yacht Club said, “Today the Elvstrøm Bailer is still the only functional bailer on Olympic dinghies and boats around the world.” Other innovations include the Elvstrøm Lifejacket, which was the first specifically designed and produced for active sailors.

Paired on shared wording: still, world.

Also on the record

  1. He was funding himself during this period as a bricklayer, but in 1954 also started cutting sails for club members in his basement.
  2. Elvstrøm was noted as a developer of sails and sailing equipment, and later founded Elvstrøm sails.
  3. One of his most successful innovations was a new type of self-bailer.
  4. The new features were a wedge shaped venturi that closes automatically if the boat grounds or hits an obstruction, and a flap that acts as a non return valve to minimise water coming in if the boat is stationary or moving too slowly for the device to work.

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FAQ

What is Paul Elvstrøm's birth card?
The King of Clubs. February 25 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Paul Elvstrøm'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 Paul Elvstrøm's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1928-02-25 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Paul Elvstrøm, 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 sailing) 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 (Q50893; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Paul Elvstrøm; infobox match). Birth date 1928-02-25 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.