Olympedia – José Vilchis

José Vilchis was a gymnast who competed for Mexico at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. He won team gymnastics medals at the 1970 Central American and Caribbean Games (silver) and the 1975 Pan American Games, a bronze.

Vilchis later settled in the United States and coached gymnastics at various clubs south of Chicago in Illinois. In February 2023 a jury in Will County, Illinois found Vilchis guilty on eight counts of sexually assaulting several young female gymnasts. The abuse directly involved crimes in 2012-13 but the jury heard evidence that he had committed similar offenses as far back as 1997. He was sentenced to 96 years in prison with the jury returning their verdict in less than two hours after a four-day trial.