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Steve Clark's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born June 17, 1943

United States

Died April 14, 2026

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

Stephen Edward Clark (June 17, 1943 – April 14, 2026) was an American competition swimmer for Yale University, Olympic champion, and onetime world record-holder. The birth-card coordinate for June 17 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Steve Clark's 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for United States across 1964. 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 Steve Clark (Q1370741), not a reading of character. 1964 1964 Summer Olympics: gold in 1964 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1964: gold in swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming. 1964: gold in swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay in competitive swimming. 1964: gold in swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming.

The King of Clubs coordinate

Steve Clark was born June 17 (1943-06-17). 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 1943 is unused. The King of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Steve Clark for United States. Quoted system copy for the King of Clubs, not a biography of Steve Clark: 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

Steve Clark in the public record

Clark attended and swam for Los Altos High School under Hall of Fame Coach Nort Thornton Jr., who would later coach the University of California Berkeley. He qualified for the Olympic team in 1960, while still attending High School. Demonstrating his early mastery of the event, at the March 1961, AAU National Indoor Swimming Championships in New Haven, Connecticut, Clark set an all-time age group record in the 100-yard freestyle of 46.7. With exceptional talent, the Los Altos High School team was considered strong enough to compete with many Varsity college teams, and competed against the Stanford Freshman team in 1961. Clark attended Yale University, where he swam for coach Philip Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Ivy League competition. During his tenure at Yale, he won five NCAA titles. He also captured six individual and five AAU relay championships while swimming for the Santa Clara Swim Club, under Hall of Fame Coach George Haines. Clark was the Santa Clara Club's first outstanding male swimmer, and the first of many outstanding swimmers mentored by Haines.

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

Cards in Steve Clark'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

Stephen Edward Clark (June 17, 1943 – April 14, 2026) was an American competition swimmer for Yale University, Olympic champion, and onetime world record-holder.

Paired on shared wording: holder, world.

Also on the record

  1. A sprint specialist with exceptionally efficient flip turns, he set nine world records, but would have set more as short course records were not accepted for world records at the time.
  2. As a senior, he was the Yale swim team captain; he graduated from Yale with his bachelor's degree in 1964.
  3. In 2005, he donated one of his three Olympic gold medals to his alma mater.
  4. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Clark swam for the first-place U.S. relay teams in the preliminary heats of the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay and men's 4×100-meter medley relay.

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FAQ

What is Steve Clark's birth card?
The King of Clubs. June 17 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Steve Clark'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 Steve Clark's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1943-06-17 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Steve Clark, 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).

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Sources: Wikidata CC0 (Q1370741; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Steve Clark (swimmer); infobox match). Birth date 1943-06-17 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.