Eric Chowles

Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge Winners – New Year 2021

📢 We are thrilled to release the winners of the New Year 2021 Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge!

This was our 29th Sleekgeek challenge since 2011 (we do 3 per year).

Despite the challenges of dealing with lockdown and the COVID-19 pandemic, our challengers still pushed hard and stuck with it to achieve incredible results throughout their 8-week challenge period.

Want to be next? Entries for the Winter 2021 Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge are now open! Enter before 08 June for a 40% discount.

Here are some quick 📊 stats:

We had a total of 534 Sleekgeek Challengers submit their final results, losing a total of 2,621.87kgs.
They lost an average of 4.9kgs or 5.26% of their body weight per person.
The top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost a total of 672.1kgs.
The top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost an average of 13.44kgs or 13.44% of their body weight per person.

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?

😍 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!

There are 4 categories with 5 winners in each (50 in total):

Female Transformation
Male Transformation
Female % Weight Loss
Male % Weight Loss

⚖️ 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 and confirmed by before and after photos (which include a photo of their measurement on the scale).

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

Keshni Mahomed, 🥇 1st Place Women’s Transformation

Cindy Naude, 🥈 2nd Place Women’s Transformation

Katherine Darvall, 🥉 3rd Place Women’s Transformation

Jade Gullacksen, 4th Place Women’s Transformation

Natalie Rabie, 5th Place Women’s Transformation

Honourable Mentions:

👏 Vanessa Eaton, Linda Pieterse, Brooke Stanford, Shaunagh van der Merwe, Jacqueline de Beer, Charmaine Stuart Steer, Adele Mundy.

🏆 MEN’S TRANSFORMATION WINNERS

Ethial Coetzee, 🥇 1st Place Men’s Transformation

Ben Paxton, 🥈 2nd Place Men’s Transformation

Marcel Kritzinger, 🥉 3rd Place Men’s Transformation

Cobus Tromp, 4th Place Men’s Transformation

Kent Hardwick, 5th Place Men’s Transformation

Honourable Mentions:

👏 Hannes Venter, Stefan Magon, Robert Larkan, Refilio Khubeke, Roy Bosman, and Wildre Pretorius.

🏆 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 (which include a photo of their measurement on the scale).

Qhawekazi Langa, 🥇 1st Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 27.31%)

Jacqueline de Beer, 🥈 2nd Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 23.96%)

Angela le Roux, 🥉 3rd Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 20.61%)

Phumudzo Orimongunje, 4th Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 18.88%)

Abigail Mathivha, 5th Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 17.09%)

Honourable Mentions:

👏 Naomi Lekalakala, Lou-Mari Hadendoorn, Arushka Ramanand, Alanda Radley, and Shivani Ramith.

🏆 MEN’S % WEIGHT LOSS WINNERS

Johan Nortje, 🥇 1st Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 21.75%)

Robert Larkan, 🥈 2nd Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 17.36%)

Paschal Materego, 🥉 3rd Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 17.35%)

Duwayne De La Guerre, 4th Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 16.70%)

Lloyd de Wet, 5th Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 14.27%)

Honourable Mentions:

👏 Ben Paxton, Gideon Bergh, Jaco Steyn, Ethial Coetzee, and Robert Regnard.

[BONUS] BUDDY CHALLENGE WINNERS

Phumudzo Orimogunje and Abigail Mathivha win our Buddy Challenge for achieving the highest combined ranking by coming 4th in Women’s % Weight Loss and 5th in Women’s % Weight Loss respectively.

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

Honourable Mentions:

👏 Ben Paxton and Hannes Venter, Keshni Mahomed and Linda Pieterse, Kent Hardwick and Paschal Materego.

[BONUS] COUPLE CHALLENGE WINNERS

Johan Nortje and Jacqueline de Beer win our Couple Challenge for achieving the highest combined ranking by coming 1st in Men’s % Weight Loss and 2nd in Women’s % Weight Loss respectively.

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

📊 TOP 50 PERCENTAGE OF WEIGHT LOSS

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

We had 534 Sleekgeek Challengers submit their final results, losing a total of 2,621.87kgs with an average of 4.9kgs or 5.26% of bodyweight lost per person!

Our top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost a total of 672.1kgs with an average of 13.44kgs or 13.44% of their bodyweight lost 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 winner is… Philile Phekana!

She wins a R2,000 adidas voucher!

👏 Honourable mentions to: Adrienne May, Angelika Lilje, Annes Keyter, Bernice Bilton, Bianca du Preez, Carmen Heinisch, Carmen Heinisch, Claudia Smith, Cornelia Fechter, Fayroush Ludick, Jaco Steyn, Jeantelle Rust, Jenny de Pontes, Jenny Depontes, Karina Bredekamp, Kat Darvall, Kim Indermaur, Maxine Chowles, Michelle de Wet, Michelle Diamond, Michelle Isaacs, Nadene Scherman, Natalie Myers, Pamela Woest, Philile Phekana, Rochelle Steyn, Samantha Chamberlain, Steve Webber, Tracy Thomas, Usha Hunsraj, and Wynand Hattingh.

[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 27 teams submit their final results to be considered.

CONGRATULATIONS to the winning team, Dream Team 1, lead by Dee Coetzee!

Dee wins R3,000 for leading her team to victory and each team member gets a R500 adidas voucher.

👏 Runners up who scored points in order of placement were Dream Team Men 1, Dream Team Men 2, Dream Team 3 and Thin It To Win It, Slimtastic 1, Finishers 1, Zero Limits, Slimtastic 2 and Metamorphosis, Head Over Meals, Capital Squad, Dream Team Evolution, Iron Maidens 1 and Phoenix.

Runner up prizes:

Dream Team Men 1 leader Theo Louw wins R2,000 cash for the 2nd place finish and each team member gets a R200 Sleekgeek online store voucher.
Dream Team Men 2 leader Edward Darvall wins R1,000 cash for the 3rd place finish and each team member gets a R150 Sleekgeek online store voucher.
R1,500 cash lucky draw for a team leaders who submitted their team final measurement with over a 80% completion rate goes to Carol Tebbutt leader of Slimtastic 2.

Want to be next?

Early entries for the next 2021 Winter Challenge are now OPEN! Enter before 08 June for a 40% discount.

Eric Chowles

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

Sharing is caring ❤️

Over R100,000 worth of prizes up for grabs

in the Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge!

Summer bodies are made in winter.

The Sleekgeek Coaching Program

We’ll help you to build healthy habits and stay consistent so that you can live a better life.

(And never need to follow another diet ever again.)

Download the Sleekgeek Food List

Want a quick snapshot of what a healthy diet might look like?

We’ve put together a list of some of the healthiest foods that you can easily and immediately start adding to your diet to help you build a solid foundation of good health.

Get your FREE copy below 👇