Wally Ris's Birth Card: The 10 of Spades

In the record

Walter Steven Ris (January 4, 1924 – December 25, 1989) was an American competition swimmer, two-time Olympic champion, and world record-holder. The birth-card coordinate for January 4 is the 10 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of Wally Ris's 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for United States across 1948. 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 Wally Ris (Q953469), not a reading of character. 1948 1948 Summer Olympics: gold in 1948 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1948: gold in swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – men's 100 metre freestyle in competitive swimming. 1948: gold in swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay in competitive swimming.

• 1948 1948 Summer Olympics — 1948 Summer Olympics (Q212434)
• 1948 swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – men's 100 metre freestyle (competitive swimming)
• 1948 swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay (competitive swimming)

The 10 of Spades coordinate

Wally Ris was born January 4 (1924-01-04). Month 1 and day 4 give solar value 49, which is the 10 of Spades (The Completed Mind). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1924 is unused. The 10 of Spades does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Wally Ris for United States. Quoted system copy for the 10 of Spades, not a biography of Wally Ris: You do the difficult curriculum in front of you without adding the ones that are not yours. You've thought deeply, questioned thoroughly, arrived at wisdom. Your mind is mature, integrated, complete. You have clarity and peace about your beliefs.

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Wally Ris in the public record

He was born one of three brothers in Chicago, Illinois to Russian immigrant parents on January 4, 1924. Ris was a star swimmer at Crane Technical High in Chicago. He attended the University of Iowa, where he was a member of the Iowa Beta chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and swam for the Iowa Hawkeyes swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Big Ten Conference competition from 1947 to 1949. At Iowa, where he graduated in 1949, he was mentored and trained by Hall of Fame Coach David Armbruster, and was the NCAA national champion in the 100-yard freestyle in 1948 and 1949. At the US Olympic trials of the 1948 4x200-meter freestyle relay, several swimmers who had already qualified in other events slowed down in their heats or swam fast in the prelims and scratched themselves for the final to allow more swimmers to qualify for the US Olympic Team. Ultimately, coach Robert Kiphuth did hold a time trial shortly after the actual trials with eleven of the swimmers. This time trial had Jimmy McLane as first overall with a time of 2:11.0, Bill Smith and Wally Wolf in 2:11.2, and Wally Ris in 2:12.4. This quartet was used for the Olympic final.

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

Where the record meets the 10 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 Wally Ris, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

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Walter Steven Ris (January 4, 1924 – December 25, 1989) was an American competition swimmer, two-time Olympic champion, and world record-holder.

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Also on the record

1. The next four-Eugene Rogers in 2:14.2, Edwin Gilbert in 2:15.4, Robert Gibe in 2:15.6, and William Dudley in 2:15.9, were used in the Olympic prelims.
2. The next three swimmers-Joe Verdeur who came in 2:16.3, Alan Ford in 2;16.4 and George Hoogerhyde in 2:17.4 were not used in any capacity in the 4x200 freestyle relay.
3. Ris won two gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England.
4. He received his first gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay, and set a new world record of 8:46.0 with American teammates Jimmy McLane, Wally Wolf, and Bill Smith.

Other multi-gold Summer Olympians with this card

• Frederick Lane — 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming
• Jean-François Lamour — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in fencing
• Zhong Tianshi — 2 Summer Olympic gold medals in track cycling

FAQ

What is Wally Ris's birth card?

The 10 of Spades. January 4 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Wally Ris'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 Wally Ris's dates and medals come from?

Birth date 1924-01-04 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Wally Ris, 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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