Summer Olympian · birth-card coordinate
Stephanie Rice'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
Stephanie Louise Rice, (born 17 June 1988) is an Australian former competitive swimmer. The birth-card coordinate for June 17 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Stephanie Rice's 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.
Summer Olympic gold record
Wikidata records 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for Australia across 2008. 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 Stephanie Rice (Q228660), not a reading of character. 2008 2008 Summer Olympics: gold in 2008 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 2008: gold in swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – women's 200 metre individual medley in competitive swimming. 2008: gold in swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming. 2008: gold in swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – women's 400 metre individual medley in competitive swimming.
- 2008 2008 Summer Olympics — 2008 Summer Olympics (Q212434)
- 2008 swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – women's 200 metre individual medley (competitive swimming)
- 2008 swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay (competitive swimming)
- 2008 swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – women's 400 metre individual medley (competitive swimming)
The King of Clubs coordinate
Stephanie Rice was born June 17 (1988-06-17). 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 1988 is unused. The King of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Stephanie Rice for Australia. Quoted system copy for the King of Clubs, not a biography of Stephanie Rice: 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.
Stephanie Rice in the public record
She won three gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on 26 January 2009. On 9 April 2014, she confirmed her retirement from swimming. In early 2024, Rice announced her conversion to Christianity. Rice was the gold medallist in the 200-metre individual medley at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, where she defeated Olympians Brooke Hanson and Lara Carroll in a time of 2:12.90, a personal best by 1.19 seconds. She also won the 400-metre individual medley. Rice won bronze in the 200- and 400-metre individual medleys. In the 200-metre final, she recorded a time of 2:11.42, a second below the previous Australian record, behind American Katie Hoff in 2:10.13, and Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe, who claimed second place. In the 400-metre final, Rice recorded a new personal best time of 4:41.19, shaving 0.54 of a second off her previous best.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Stephanie Rice (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 Stephanie Rice, and not a forecast of a gold medal.
Cards in Stephanie Rice'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)
- 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
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.
Rice prevailed after being neck and neck with Coventry throughout the last 50 metres, who once again followed Rice to beat the old world record.
Paired on shared wording: once, world.
Also on the record
- Rice set a new personal best time of 4:40.79 in the 400-metre individual medley at an Italian meet in June 2007, edging closer to the 4:40 barrier in the event.
- At the 2007 Japanese Open Championships, Rice won silver behind Zimbabwean champion Kirsty Coventry in the 400-metre individual medley.
- In doing so, she smashed her personal best time by 3.61 seconds, cracking the 4:40 barrier and setting a new Australian and Commonwealth record of 4:37.18.
- At the 2008 Australian Olympic trials, Rice broke the world record in both the 400- and 200-metre individual medleys.
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
- 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
- Michael Klim — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
- 16 more Olympians in this set share this card.
FAQ
- What is Stephanie Rice's birth card?
- The King of Clubs. June 17 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Stephanie Rice'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 Stephanie Rice's dates and medals come from?
- Birth date 1988-06-17 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Stephanie Rice, 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 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).
Get the $9 Deep Dive
The Deep Dive is a written card report for your own birthday — not an Olympic reading.
Sources: Wikidata CC0 (Q228660; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Stephanie Rice; infobox match). Birth date 1988-06-17 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.