📢 We are thrilled to release the winners of
This was our 34th Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge since 2011 (we do 3 per year).
Once again, each of our challengers worked incredibly hard to achieve impressive results throughout their 8-week challenge period and our judges really had their work cut out for them to come up with our top winners.
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Here are some quick 📊 stats:
- We had a
total of 605 Sleekgeek Challengers submit their final results, losing a total of 2,686.4kgs. - They lost an average of 4.4kgs or 4.8% of their body weight per person.
- The top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost a total of 657.3kgs.
- The top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost an average of 13.2kgs or 13.5% of their body weight per person.
These stats include those who deliberately put on weight/muscle to improve their physique and health.
Great job Sleeks! You guys and girls knocked it out of the park!
All of those who submitted final results are that much closer to their goals – isn’t it time that you gave it a go?
Quick Links:
- Prizes Recap
- Judging Process Explained
- Women’s Transformation Winners
- Men’s Transformation Winners
- Women’s % Weight Loss Winners
- Men’s % Weight Loss Winners
- Buddy Challenge Winners
- Couple Challenge Winners
- Top 50 % Weight Loss Stats
- Consistency Award Winner
- Team Challenge Winner
📊 Survey Stats:
We asked our challengers to rate themselves on a scale of 1-10 where:
- 0 = poor
- 5 = average
- 10 = excellent
Here were the results.
How would you rank your current level of health and fitness right now?
| BEFORE | AFTER | CHANGE |
| 4.5 | 6.5 | ⬆️ 21% |
How would you rate how you feel about your body right now?
| BEFORE | AFTER | CHANGE |
| 3.5 | 6.1 | ⬆️ 27% |
How would you rate how consistently you eat healthily right now?
| BEFORE | AFTER | CHANGE |
| 4.4 | 6.7 | ⬆️ 24% |
How would you rate how consistently active you are right now?
| BEFORE | AFTER | CHANGE |
| 4.4 | 6.7 | ⬆️ 23% |
How would you rate your general energy levels right now?
| BEFORE | AFTER | CHANGE |
| 4.5 | 6.5 | ⬆️ 20% |
AVERAGE IMPROVEMENT
| ⬆️ 23% |
😍 Prizes:
A huge round of applause to our top 20 challengers who walk away with awesome prizes (pictured below) as well as bragging rights in our latest challenge!
And, of course, a massive thanks to our awesome prize sponsors!
Sleekgeek gives away over R100,000 worth of prizes each challenge, with the 4 individual category winners winning R10,000 each!
Main Challenge Prizes:
There are 4 categories with 5 winners in each (50 in total):
- Female Transformation
- Male Transformation
- Female % Weight Loss
- Male % Weight Loss
Thank you to our sponsors Vitaforce, CSB Body Fusion, adidas, NutriBullet, Ergonomicsdirect, The Health Food Emporium, Fitbit, vida e caffè, and Just Protein!
Buddy Challenge, Couple Challenge, and Team Challenge Prizes:
Thank you to our sponsors: Vitaforce and adidas!
Read more about the bonus Couple Challenge, Buddy Challenge, and Team Challenge here.
Consistency Challenge:
Read more about the bonus Consistency Challenge here.
⚖️ Judging process:
A quick reminder that we have 4 categories to ensure fair competition: 1) Men’s transformation, 2) women’s transformation, 3) men’s weight loss, and 4) women’s weight loss.
Transformation is judged by our independent panel of judges via an audited voting process. The Transformation category is determined by who the judges believed had to do the most work to get from ‘Before’ to ‘After.’
Weight loss is judged purely by percentage of weight lost, based on before and after measurements submitted. We publish modest clothed photos, but weight loss is confirmed by our judges using the challenger’s more revealing before and after photos as well as photos of their weight while standing on the scale.
- NEW: The Summer 2022 challenge was the first challenge we introduced a new rule of “Top 5 % Weight Loss Winners cannot place as a winner if they have gained back more than 50% of the weight they lost in their most recent challenge unless it’s been more than 12 months. (e.g. if someone loses 20kgs, they can’t place as a winner if they have gained back more than 10kgs subsequently)”. This is to help minimise repeat winners and unhealthy weight re-gain between challenges.
Sleekgeek and its staff are not involved in the final decision-making and we accept the judges’ decisions as final.
Some past winners:
🏆 WOMEN’S TRANSFORMATION WINNERS
Casandra Viljoen, 🥇 1st Place Women’s Transformation:
Jessi Hearshaw, 🥈 2nd Place Women’s Transformation:
Therine Prinsloo, 🥉 3rd Place Women’s Transformation:
Jade Gullacksen, 4th Place Women’s Transformation:
Michelle Cloete, 5th Place Women’s Transformation:
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Mari Lubbe (6th)
👏 Jenny de Pontes (7th)
👏 Erin Pretorius (8th)
👏 Carla Du Plessis (9th)
👏 Annemie Williamson / 👏 Charisse Krupski (tied for 10th)
🏆 MEN’S TRANSFORMATION WINNERS
Lambert Greeff, 🥇 1st Place Men’s Transformation:
Christiaan Du Plessis, 🥈 2nd Place Men’s Transformation:
Willem Lubbe, 🥉 3rd Place Men’s Transformation:
Theo Louw, 4th Place Men’s Transformation:
Wesley Payne, 5th Place Men’s Transformation:
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Shaun Joubert (6th)
👏 Mogamat Abrahams (7th)
👏 Viv Blumears (8th)
👏 Conrad van Zyl (9th)
👏 Marco Kuhn / 👏 Wynand Hattingh (tied for 10th)
🏆 WOMEN’S % WEIGHT LOSS WINNERS
Weight loss is judged purely by percentage of body weight lost, based on before and after measurements submitted and confirmed by before and after photos both fully and minimally clothed (which include a photo of their measurement on the scale).
- NEW: The Summer 2022 challenge was the first challenge we introduced a new rule of “Top 5 % Weight Loss Winners cannot place as a winner if they have gained back more than 50% of the weight they lost in their most recent challenge unless it’s been more than 12 months. (e.g. if someone loses 20kgs, they can’t place as a winner if they have gained back more than 10kgs subsequently)”. This is to help minimise repeat winners and unhealthy weight re-gain between challenges.
Irene Du Preez, 🥇 1st Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 21.41%):
Charity Links, 🥈 2nd Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 20.85%):
Fiona Worwood, 3rd Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 17.63%):
Zaytoon Esack, 4th Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 17.26%):
Veronica van den Heever, 5th Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 17.15%):
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Debbie Papamichael (6th)
👏 Sonika Coetzee (7th)
👏 Bernice Mentz (8th)
👏 Lauren Joubert (9th)
👏 Liezel Van Der Westhuizen (10th)
🏆 MEN’S % WEIGHT LOSS WINNERS
Weight loss is judged purely by percentage of body weight lost, based on before and after measurements submitted and confirmed by before and after photos both fully and minimally clothed (which include a photo of their measurement on the scale).
- NEW: The Summer 2022 challenge was the first challenge we introduced a new rule of “Top 5 % Weight Loss Winners cannot place as a winner if they have gained back more than 50% of the weight they lost in their most recent challenge unless it’s been more than 12 months. (e.g. if someone loses 20kgs, they can’t place as a winner if they have gained back more than 10kgs subsequently)”. This is to help minimise repeat winners and unhealthy weight re-gain between challenges.
Yuveshen Subramoney, 🥇 1st Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 17.86%):
Julian Fernandez 🥈 2nd Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 16.22%):
Enslin Opperman, 🥉 3rd Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 14.27%):
Meyer Du Plessis, 4th Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 11.94%):
Hansie Bronkhorst, 5th Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 11.68%):
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Mogamat Abrahams (6th)
👏 David Engelbrecht (7th)
👏 Charlie van Schalkwyk (8th)
👏 Viv Blumears (9th)
👏 Jaco Naude (10th)
[BONUS] BUDDY CHALLENGE WINNERS
Christiaan Du Plessis and Meyer Du Plessis win our Buddy Challenge for achieving the highest combined ranking by coming 2nd in Men’s Transformation and 4th in Men’s % Weight Loss respectively.
They win a R10,000 adidas shopping voucher to share!
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Theo Louw (4th) and Wynand Hattingh (10th)
[BONUS] COUPLE CHALLENGE WINNERS
Willem Lubbe and Mari Lubbe win our Couple Challenge for achieving the highest combined ranking by coming 3rd in Men’s Transformation and 6th in Women’s Transformation respectively.
They win a R10,000 adidas shopping voucher to share!
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Meyer Du Plessis (4th) and Carla Du Plessis (9th)
📊 TOP 50 PERCENTAGE OF WEIGHT LOSS
Well done to our top 50 people in the percentage of body weight lost category!
We had a
- Our men lost an average of 5.3% of their body weight per person.
- Our women lost an average of 4.8% of their body weight per person.
Our top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost a total of 657.3kgs with an average of 13.2kgs or 13.5% of their body weight lost per person!
- Our top 50 men lost an average of 7.7% of their body weight per person.
- Our top 50 women lost an average of 12.9% of their body weight per person.
[BONUS] CONSISTENCY AWARD WINNER
Each Challenge we have a group of challengers who impress us with their consistency over the 8 weeks meeting all the requirements.
When we have more than one candidate meeting the prescribed requirements it comes down to a random draw.
The Consistency Winner is… Lauren Brunette!
They win a R2,000 cash prize!
Honourable mentions (A-Z) to: Casandra Viljoen, Dave Rademan, Debbie Delport, Diane van Aswegen, Janine Marks, Jolene Barnard, Kat Darvall, Liana Hauptfleisch, Liezel Van Der Westhuizen, Melanie Timm, Michael Mitchell, Nicole September, and Veronica Van den Heever.
[BONUS] TEAM CHALLENGE WINNER
As a fun extra, we encourage challengers to form teams with friends, family, and even other Sleekgeeks who they have never met before. Teams range from a minimum of 10 to a maximum of 20 members.
How is the winning team judged?
We use a formula that takes into account the following:
- Average weight loss of team members.
- Percentage of team members who finish the challenge
- Bonus points for team members who make it into the “top 10” of the Transformation category.
We had 35 teams submit their final results to be considered.
CONGRATULATIONS to the winning team, DreamTeam Dominators lead by Ghadijah Gabier!
Ghadijah wins R3,000 for leading her team to victory and each team member gets a R500 Sleekgeek Online Store voucher.
👏 Team Placings were:
- DreamTeam Dominators – Ghadijah wins R3,000 for leading her team to victory and each team member gets a R500 Sleekgeek Online Store voucher.
- WaistAway 5 – Edward Darvall wins R2,000 cash for the 2nd place finish and each team member gets a R200 Sleekgeek online store voucher.
- WaistAway 3 – Jenni Murray-Williams R1,000 cash for the 3rd place finish and each team member gets a R150 Sleekgeek online store voucher.
- Metamorphosis
- DreamTeam Dynamite
- DreamTeam Sassy
- Mountain Movers 1
- Iron Maidens 2
- DreamTeam Evolution
- DreamTeam Vikings
- WaistAway1
- Zero Limits Revolution
- Thinit to Winit Shakers
- Mountain Movers 5
- Thinit to Winit Movers
- Iron Maidens 1
- Goal Diggers
- Iron Maidens 3
- Mountain Movers 3
- WaistAway 6
- DreamTeam Achievers
- House Athena
- Asijiki 2
- Lean Queens
- Mountain Movers 2
- Zero Limits 1
- Titans
- Asijiki 1
- WaistAwayWarriors
- Belly Bailouts
- Goal Getters
- The Assassins
- Mountain Movers 4
- WaistAway2
- Team Wildfire
Want to be next?
Early entries for the next 2023 New Year Challenge are now OPEN until 28 February 2023! Enter before 08 February 2023 for a 40% discount.
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