Vincenzo Maenza's Birth Card: The 4 of Spades

In the record

Vincenzo Maenza (born 2 May 1962) is an Italian Greco-Roman wrestler. The birth-card coordinate for May 2 is the 4 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of Vincenzo Maenza's 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in amateur wrestling.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in amateur wrestling for Italy across 1984 and 1988. 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 Vincenzo Maenza (Q981966), not a reading of character. 1984: gold in wrestling at the 1984 Summer Olympics – men's Greco-Roman light flyweight in Greco-Roman wrestling. 1988: gold in wrestling at the 1988 Summer Olympics – men's Greco-Roman light flyweight in Greco-Roman wrestling.

• 1984 wrestling at the 1984 Summer Olympics – men's Greco-Roman light flyweight (Greco-Roman wrestling)
• 1988 wrestling at the 1988 Summer Olympics – men's Greco-Roman light flyweight (Greco-Roman wrestling)

The 4 of Spades coordinate

Vincenzo Maenza was born May 2 (1962-05-02). Month 5 and day 2 give solar value 43, which is the 4 of Spades (The Rigid Truth). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1962 is unused. The 4 of Spades does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Vincenzo Maenza for Italy. Quoted system copy for the 4 of Spades, not a biography of Vincenzo Maenza: You build enough container that change can happen without the floor disappearing. You build frameworks for understanding truth. You're organized in your thinking, structured in your beliefs. Your mind thinks in terms of principles and rules.

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Vincenzo Maenza in the public record

He won two gold medals and a silver medal at the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Olympic Games. Nicknamed "Pollicino" (Thumbelin) for his small size, Vincenzo Maenza is considered the best wrestler in the Italian history. In fact, he is the first and only Italian wrestler who has won three Olympic medals, and he was also the first and only who was able to win two gold medals. When was a child, Vincenzo weighed only 60 lbs and was affected by scoliosis. He started to wrestle at 12 years old at the CISA AUDAX wrestling club in Faenza. He began to compete in 1976. Soon he became National Champion several times and in 1979 won the silver medal at the Mediterranean Games in Split. The next year he competed in the Summer Olympics in Moscow and placed 7th.

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

Where the record meets the 4 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 Vincenzo Maenza, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

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He won two gold medals and a silver medal at the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Olympic Games.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: olympic.

Also on the record

1. After he won the bronze medal at Junior European Championship and the gold medal at the Junior World Championship, in 1984 Vincenzo became Olympic champion for the first time at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
2. In the final, he defeated German wrestler Markus Scherer in 1:59 with an awesome 12-0 score.
3. The 1987 was a golden year for the Italian wrestler.
4. He became European Champion and silver medalist at World Championship.

Other multi-gold Summer Olympians with this card

• Ann Curtis — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
• Brad Schumacher — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming, water polo
• Conor Dwyer — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
• Andrew Hoy — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in equestrian sport
• Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in diving
• Ferenc Németh — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in modern pentathlon
• Liu Guoliang — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in table tennis

FAQ

What is Vincenzo Maenza's birth card?

The 4 of Spades. May 2 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Vincenzo Maenza'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 Vincenzo Maenza's dates and medals come from?

Birth date 1962-05-02 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Vincenzo Maenza, 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 (2 Summer Olympic gold medals in amateur wrestling) 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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