Eric Chowles

Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge Winners – Winter 2018

We are thrilled to release the winners of Winter 2018 Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge! This was our 21st Sleekgeek challenge to date (we do 3 per year).

Our Summer 2018 Challenge sales open Friday the 31st of August, 2018, right here!

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.

Here are some quick stats:

We had 281 Sleekgeek Challengers submit their final results, losing a total of 1507.8kgs.

They lost an average of 5.2kgs per person.

The top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost a total of 571.2kgs.

The top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost an average of 11.42kgs per person.

Great job Sleeks! You guys and girls knocked it out of the park!

You can see a full Top 50 Weight Loss Chart towards the bottom of this results page.

All of those who submitted final results are that much closer to their goals – isn’t it time that you gave it a go?

So, 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 R50,000 in cash each challenge across the various categories and you can watch Elan here LIVE phoning all the category winners who each walked away with R10,000.

There are 5 winners in each of the 4 categories:

Judging process

A quick reminder that we have 4 categories to ensure fair competition: Men’s transformation, women’s transformation, men’s weight loss, and 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 and confirmed by before and after photos (which include a photo of their measurement on the scale).

Note: This was the first time in 21 challenges that we have used percentage of weight lost rather than simply total weight lost. This was due to popular demand by the community who raised the issue after each and every challenge. You can read more about that change here.

Sleekgeek and its staff are not involved in the final decision-making and we accept the judges’ decisions as final.

WOMEN’S TRANSFORMATION WINNERS

Marinda Badenhorst, 1st Place Women’s Transformation

Natasha Kunker, 2nd Place Women’s Transformation

Chantal Saunders, 3rd Place Women’s Transformation

Elsmarie Meyer, 4th Place Women’s Transformation

Jeni Weitz, 5th Place Women’s Transformation

Runners Up / Honourable Mentions:

Adri Swart, Chantal Neilson, Jeanette du Toit, Natasha Peet, and Sharon Cronje.

MEN’S TRANSFORMATION WINNERS

Jonathan de Ridder, 1st Place Men’s Transformation

Stefan Magon, 2nd Place Men’s Transformation

Shaun M., 3rd Place Men’s Transformation

Neil Van Tonder, 4th Place Men’s Transformation

Dylan Janse van Rensburg, 5th Place Men’s Transformation

Runners Up / Honourable Mentions:

Bilal Mahomed, Glen Badenhorst, Lambert Greeff, and Wynand Marais.

WOMEN’S WEIGHT LOSS WINNERS

Christelle Parsons, 1st Place Women’s Weight Loss
(lost 24%)

Stefanie van Eeden, 2nd Place Women’s Weight Loss
(lost 22.92%)

Saberah Gumede, 3rd Place Women’s Weight Loss
(lost 22.90%)

Natasja van Eeden, 4th Place Women’s Weight Loss
(lost 16.70%)

Sharon Cronje, 5th Place Women’s Weight Loss
(lost 14.17%)

Runners Up / Honourable Mentions:

Adri Swart, Elsmarie Meyer, Chantal Saunders, Natasha Kunker, and Ricolette Losper.

MEN’S WEIGHT LOSS WINNERS

Glen Badenhorst, 1st Place Men’s Weight Loss
(lost 17.69%)

Jaco Marx, 2nd Place Men’s Weight Loss
(lost 14.08%)

Adeeb Abdurahman, 3rd Place Men’s Weight Loss
(lost 13.49%)

Mark Jonker, 4th Place Men’s Weight Loss
(lost 12.42%)

Jandre Cronje, 5th Place Men’s Weight Loss
(lost 11.80%)

Runners Up / Honourable Mentions:

Sebabatso Ramongalo, Etienne du Bruyn, Rynhardt Nel, Johan Nortje, and Neil van Tonder.

[BONUS] BUDDY CHALLENGE WINNERS

Stefanie van Eeden and Chantal Saunders win our Buddy Challenge for achieving the highest combined ranking by coming 2nd in Women’s Weightloss and 3rd in Women’s Transformation respectively.

They win a R10,000 shopping voucher from adidas to share!

Honourable mention to Natasja van Eeden (who was also buddied with current winner Stefani van Eeden).

[BONUS] COUPLE CHALLENGE WINNERS

Marinda Badenhorst and Glen Badenhorst win our Couple Challenge for achieving the highest combined ranking by coming 1st in Women’s Transformation and 1st in Men’s Weightloss respectively.

They win R7,000 cash and a couple’s photoshoot worth R2,500 to share!

Honourable mention to these other couples:

Natasha Kunker and Stefan Magon who both placed 2nd in their categories.

Sharon and Jandre Cronje who both placed 5th in their categories.

Newly weds Neil van Tonder and Natasha Chancellor-Maddison.

TOP 50 PERCENTAGE OF WEIGHT LOSS

Well done to our top 50 percentage of weight loss finishers!

We had 281 Sleekgeek Challengers submit their final results, losing a total of 1507.8kgs and an average of 5.2kgs per person!

Our top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost a total of 571.2kgs and an average of 11.42kgs per person!

[BONUS] SPIRIT AWARD WINNER

Mick Waters is the winner of our spirit award!

This award goes to the person who was the most active and encouraging during the challenge in our Facebook Group.

He wins 6 Months of Sleekgeek Group Coaching!

There were too many other notable people who added spirit to the challenge to mention here without risking leaving anyone out! You all know who you are thank you!

[BONUS] TEAM CHALLENGE WINNER

As a fun extra, we encourage challengers to form teams with people 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 11 teams submit their final results to be considered.

The winning team Fat No More lead by Carla Pohl lost an average of 6.87kgs per person.

They had a 91% completion rate and got bonus points for their team member Neil van Tonder placing 4th in Men’s Transformation.

Well done to the team members who made it to the end:

Carla Pohl
Meyer du Plessis
Neil van Tonder
Natasha Chancellor-Maddison
Aletta Marx
Jaco Marx
Jaco Mouton
Dean Pretorius
Chriselda Bezuidenhout
Odette van der Merwe

Honourable mentions to Teams PushUpperz and GravityDefiers who came 2nd and 3rd respectively.

The winning team leader gets R2,500 for their efforts, and all of the winning team members receive a Sleekgeek Diary and Sleekgeek Cap!

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Eric Chowles

Eric is the co-founder of Sleekgeek, a certified Precision Nutrition Coach, and the head coach in Sleekgeek's Coaching Program.

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