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Pieter van den Hoogenband's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds

3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born March 14, 1978

Kingdom of the Netherlands

The Universal Provider

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

Pieter Cornelis Martijn van den Hoogenband (born 14 March 1978) is a Dutch retired swimmer. The birth-card coordinate for March 14 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of Pieter van den Hoogenband's 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for Kingdom of the Netherlands across 2000 and 2004. 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 Pieter van den Hoogenband (Q298723), not a reading of character. 2000: gold in swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – men's 100 metre freestyle in competitive swimming. 2000: gold in swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – men's 200 metre freestyle in competitive swimming. 2004: gold in swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – men's 100 metre freestyle in competitive swimming.

The 9 of Diamonds coordinate

Pieter van den Hoogenband was born March 14 (1978-03-14). Month 3 and day 14 give solar value 35, which is the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal Provider). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1978 is unused. The 9 of Diamonds does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Pieter van den Hoogenband for Kingdom of the Netherlands. Quoted system copy for the 9 of Diamonds, not a biography of Pieter van den Hoogenband: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back. You think about resources in terms of universal good and human need. You want to provide for humanity. Your vision is about abundance for all.

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Pieter van den Hoogenband in the public record

He is a triple Olympic champion and former world record holder. Born in Maastricht, Limburg, he is the first child of Cees-Rein van den Hoogenband and Astrid Verver, a former Dutch 800 m freestyle silver medalist at the European Junior Championships. He has a younger sister named Veronique and a younger brother named Robert. He grew up in Geldrop, where he swam for PSV. His father, a former judoka, was a team doctor with the professional football team of the same club. Russian swimmer and four-time Olympic gold medalist Alexander Popov was his role model. In 1993, Van den Hoogenband achieved his first success, performing well on the European Youth Olympic Days. Before the Atlanta Games, Astrid van den Hoogenband, who was coaching the Dutch team, became frustrated with the swimmers representing the Netherlands, feeling they had much potential but would not be able to live up to it due to lack of adequate support.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Pieter van den Hoogenband (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 Pieter van den Hoogenband, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

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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♠ — Planetary Ruling Card, fixed to the 9♦, from the published 2 of Spades meaning

He is a triple Olympic champion and former world record holder.

Paired on shared wording: holder, world.

Also on the record

  1. She pleaded with Cees to take action, as he carried much weight through his professional connections.
  2. After Astrid threatened to remove Pieter from the sport, Cees created a small foundation and signed up 20 initial sponsors who each paid $2,500 to fund a team trainer.
  3. The Dutch swimming team eventually signed contracts with Philips, Nike, and Speedo.
  4. Enough funds were raised to open a swim school in Eindhoven, Van den Hoogenband's place of residence.

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FAQ

What is Pieter van den Hoogenband's birth card?
The 9 of Diamonds. March 14 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Pieter van den Hoogenband'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 Pieter van den Hoogenband's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1978-03-14 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Pieter van den Hoogenband, 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 (Q298723; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Pieter van den Hoogenband; infobox match). Birth date 1978-03-14 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.