Raisa Smetanina's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

In the record

Raisa Smetanina: Raisa Petrovna Smetanina (Russian: Раиса Петровна Сметанина; born 29 February 1952) is a Komi cross-country skiing champion, representing the Soviet Union and later the Unified Team at the Winter Olympic games. Raisa Smetanina (Q464868, slug raisa-smetanina) is on Wikipedia’s 8+ Winter Olympic medalists table for Cross-country under Soviet Union / Unified Team, with a published row of Raisa Smetanina: 10 Winter Olympic medals (4 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze). None of those 10 medals set Raisa Smetanina’s card. February 29 / 1952-02-29 does: the 9 of Clubs (9♣).

Winter Olympic medal row

Raisa Smetanina’s list row is 4 gold / 5 silver / 1 bronze in Cross-country. That 10-medal line is why raisa-smetanina is in the catalog and why a one-event specialist with fewer than eight Winter medals has no page here. Soviet Union / Unified Team is the nation cell on that row. It is not a second birthday and it is not fed into the solar formula. Only February 29 is mapped. The year 1952 printed on Raisa Smetanina is unused for Raisa Smetanina.

• Raisa Smetanina gold count: 4
• Raisa Smetanina silver count: 5
• Raisa Smetanina bronze count: 1
• Raisa Smetanina Winter Olympic total: 10

How February 29 becomes the 9 of Clubs

For raisa-smetanina, solar_value = 55 − (2 × month + day) is evaluated with month 2 and day 29. 55 − (2 × 2 + 29) = 22 for Raisa Smetanina. Raisa Smetanina’s slot 22 is the 9 of Clubs (9♣), not a Cross-country forecast. A reader looking up Q464868 should treat this as a calendar pin for February 29, not a verdict on Soviet Union / Unified Team or Cross-country. raisa-smetanina is the only path segment for this athlete; Raisa Smetanina is the article title; 9♣ is the computed coordinate.

Year unused. December 31 is the Joker.

The 9 of Clubs coordinate

Raisa Smetanina maps to 9 of Clubs / The Humanitarian Builder on February 29. Quoted only as the published 9-of-clubs coordinate line, not as a Cross-country reading of Raisa Smetanina: You let a used-up framework go and keep the part that still works.

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Raisa Smetanina in the public record

She is the first woman in history to win ten Winter Olympic medals. Smetanina took part in five Olympics, representing the Soviet team four times and the Unified Team once. In particular, Smetanina won two gold and one silver medals at the 1976 Winter Olympics, becoming the most successful athlete there, along with Rosi Mittermaier of West Germany. In the 1992 Winter Olympics, at the age of 39, Smetanina won a further gold medal competing for the Unified Team in the 4 × 5 km relay, becoming the first woman to win ten Winter Olympic medals and at that time the oldest woman to win a Winter Olympic gold. Smetanina also had successes at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, winning four golds (20 km (1982), and 4 × 5 km relay (1974, 1985, and 1991), three silvers (10 km (1978), and 4 × 5 km relay (1982, 1989)), and four bronzes (4 × 5 km relay (1978), 5 km (1974, 1978), and 20 km (1980)). She also won three times at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival, once in the 10 km (1975) and twice in the 5 km (1975 and 1979). In 1979 Smetanina received the Holmenkollen Medal (shared with Erik Håker and Ingemar Stenmark). She was also awarded Order of Friendship of Peoples (1984).

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

Where the record meets the 9 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 Raisa Smetanina, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Visionary thinking and universal perspective

Raisa Petrovna Smetanina (Russian: Раиса Петровна Сметанина; born 29 February 1952) is a Komi cross-country skiing champion, representing the Soviet Union and later the Unified Team at the Winter Olympic games.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: olympic, union. This line comes from the Mercury position of the 9♣'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
2. 10 medals – (4 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze) 11 medals – (4 gold, 3 silver, 4 bronze) 3 victories 16 podiums 3 victories 9 podiums List of multiple Winter Olympic medalists List of multiple Olympic medalists Raissa Smetanina at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation Holmenkollen medalists – click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file (in Norwegian) Holmenkollen winners since 1892 – click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (in Norwegian)

Other 8+ Winter medalists with this card

• No other 8+ Winter Olympic medalist in this set shares the 9 of Clubs.

FAQ

What is Raisa Smetanina’s birth card?

Raisa Smetanina’s card is the 9 of Clubs. February 29 (1952-02-29) maps through the public formula; Q464868 does not change the month-day math.

Does Raisa Smetanina’s birth card predict Winter Olympic medals?

No. Raisa Smetanina: 10 Winter Olympic medals (4 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze) is a list fact about Cross-country. The 9 of Clubs only names February 29 for raisa-smetanina.

Where do Raisa Smetanina’s dates come from?

Raisa Smetanina’s birth date 1952-02-29 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date on Raisa Smetanina, verified against Wikidata P569 1952-02-29 (Q464868, CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). Those two raisa-smetanina sources match (match). A year-only infobox or a Q464868 conflict would have dropped Raisa Smetanina, not invented a day. The 8+ list catalogued Raisa Smetanina; it did not supply 1952-02-29. Hooks for raisa-smetanina come from the Wikipedia REST summary at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raisa_Smetanina (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why is Raisa Smetanina in this set and not every Winter Olympic medalist?

Raisa Smetanina is on the Wikipedia 8+ table with 10 medals. Raisa Smetanina stays because that table lists the athlete and both the infobox and Wikidata P569 (Q464868) publish 1952-02-29.

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