Valentina Vezzali's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds

In the record

Maria Valentina Vezzali (born 14 February 1974) is an Italian politician and retired Olympic and World Champion foil fencer. The birth-card coordinate for February 14 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of Valentina Vezzali's 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in fencing.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in fencing for Italy across 2000–2012. 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 Valentina Vezzali (Q229967), not a reading of character. 2000: gold in fencing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – women's foil in fencing. 2004: gold in fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – women's foil in fencing. 2008: gold in fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – women's foil in fencing. 2012: gold in fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – women's team foil in fencing.

• 2000 fencing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – women's foil (fencing)
• 2004 fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – women's foil (fencing)
• 2008 fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – women's foil (fencing)
• 2012 fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – women's team foil (fencing)

The Jack of Diamonds coordinate

Valentina Vezzali was born February 14 (1974-02-14). Month 2 and day 14 give solar value 37, which is the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1974 is unused. The Jack of Diamonds does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Valentina Vezzali for Italy. Quoted system copy for the Jack of Diamonds, not a biography of Valentina Vezzali: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works. You bring new ways of thinking about resources and success. You're the one who shifts how people relate to money. You inspire financial breakthroughs.

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Valentina Vezzali in the public record

As a fencer, Vezzali won six Olympic gold medals and was a 16-time World Champion in foil. She is one of only five athletes in the history of the Summer Olympic Games to have won five medals in the same individual event. She is widely considered to be the greatest women's foilist in fencing history. In 2013, Vezzali became a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies as part of the Civic Choice party. In 2021, she became Italy's cabinet undersecretary in charge of sports. As a child, she was first trained in fencing by her father, and then by the sword master Ezio Triccoli. Vezzali was the first fencer in Olympic history to win three individual foil gold medals at three consecutive Olympics – Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. Vezzali won nine Olympic medals in all: five in individual foil (three gold, one silver, one bronze) and four in team foil (three gold, one bronze).

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Valentina Vezzali (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 3 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 Valentina Vezzali, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

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Maria Valentina Vezzali (born 14 February 1974) is an Italian politician and retired Olympic and World Champion foil fencer.

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Also on the record

1. She medaled in all five of her Olympic appearances from 1996 to 2012; she attempted to qualify for Rio 2016 at the age of 41, but did not gain enough points.
2. Vezzali has the fourth-most Olympic medals (9) of any Italian athlete and the most of any female summer Olympian from Italy, behind fencer Edoardo Mangiarotti (13), short-track speed skater Arianna Fontana (11) and cross-country skier Stefania Belmondo (10).
3. She also won sixteen gold medals at the World Fencing Championships, six in individual competitions (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011) and another ten in team competitions (1995, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015), plus six silver medals (two individual, 1994 and 2006, and four with Italian team, in 1994, 2006, 2011, 2016) and four bronze medals (individual, 1995, 1998, 2012 and 2014).
4. In European championships, she won nine gold medals (individual: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2009, 2010; team: 1999, 2001, 2009, 2010), three silver medals (individual: 2003, 2007; team: 2007), two bronze medals (individual: 1993; team: 1998).

Other multi-gold Summer Olympians with this card

• Susie O'Neill — 4 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
• Andrea Pollack — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
• Jon Henricks — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
• Denis Pankratov — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
• Hamza Yerlikaya — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in amateur wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestling
• Helmer Mörner — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in equestrian sport
• Li Xiaoxia — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in table tennis
• Wang Qianyi — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in synchronized swimming

FAQ

What is Valentina Vezzali's birth card?

The Jack of Diamonds. February 14 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Valentina Vezzali'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 Valentina Vezzali's dates and medals come from?

Birth date 1974-02-14 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Valentina Vezzali, 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 fencing) 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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