Ioannis Phrangoudis

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Olympic medal record
Men's Shooting
Gold	1896 Athens	Rapid fire pistol
Silver	1896 Athens	Free rifle
Bronze	1896 Athens	Free pistol

Ioannis Phrangoudis (born in Limassol, Cyprus) was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Phrangoudis competed in four of the five shooting events as well as serving as secretary of the Sub-Committee for Shooting.

He began his sole rifle event, the free rifle, with a lead in the competition after the first string of 10 shots. However, his shooting was inconsistent and his second and fourth strings were far below the scores of his first and third strings. Phrangoudis finished second behind Georgios Orphanidis, with 1,312 points to his countryman's 1,583. Viggo Jensen in third place was only 7 points behind Phrangoudis.

In the rapid fire pistol, Phrangoudis was the victor, defeating Orphanidis, along with two other competitors, 344-249. He added another top three finish in the free pistol, behind Sumner Paine (silver medallist in the military pistol) and Holger Nielsen (bronze medallist in the rapid fire pistol).

Phrangoudis also competed in the military pistol, finishing fourth.

Olympic medalists in shooting | Olympic champions in men's 25 m rapid fire pistol

Ioannis Phrangoudis | Maurice Larrouy | Alfred Lane | Guilherme Paraense | Henry Marvin Bailey | Renzo Morigi | Cornelius van Oyen | Károly Takács (twice) | Stefan Petrescu | William McMillan | Pentti Linnosvuo | Jozef Zapedzki (twice) | Norbert Klaar | Corneliu Ion | Takeo Kamachi | Afanasijs Kuzmins | Ralf Schumann (three times) | Sergei Alifirenko