📢 We are thrilled to release the winners of
This was our 31st Sleekgeek 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.
Want to be next? Entries for the New Year 2022 Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge are now open! Enter before 08 February for a 40% discount.
Here are some quick 📊 stats:
- We had a
total of 660 Sleekgeek Challengers submit their final results, losing a total of 3,130.6kgs. - They lost an average of 4.7kgs or 5.2% of their body weight per person.
- The top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost a total of 653.3kgs.
- The top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost an average of 13.1kgs or 13.7% 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
😍 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 Fitbit, Totalsports, CSB Body Fusion, Faithful to Nature, Cape Union Mart, Ergonomicsdirect, The Skinny Foods Co, and Montague Snacks!
Buddy Challenge, Couple Challenge, and Team Challenge Prizes:
Thank you to our sponsor: 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.
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
Cherize Grobler, 🥇 1st Place Women’s Transformation
Amori Klopper, 🥈 2nd Place Women’s Transformation
Julie Smith, 🥉 3rd Place Women’s Transformation
Noleen Roets, 4th Place Women’s Transformation
Mandy Teixeira, 5th Place Women’s Transformation
Honourable Mentions (A-Z):
👏 Avalon Jade Bruce, Jamie Kleyn, Janet de Beer, Janie Marx-Darby, Jess Hearshaw, Jolinda van der Merwe, and Latisha Govinder.
🏆 MEN’S TRANSFORMATION WINNERS
Willie Combrink, 🥇 1st Place Men’s Transformation
Martin van der Merwe, 🥈 2nd Place Men’s Transformation
Christiaan du Plessis, 🥉 3rd Place Men’s Transformation
Carl Baptista, 4th Place Men’s Transformation
Janus Badenhorst, 5th Place Men’s Transformation
Honourable Mentions (A-Z):
👏 Andries Nel, Arnie Meiring, Gert Mare, Jovan de Lange, Robert Volschenk, Wesley Payne, and WP Badenhorst.
🏆 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).
Veronica van den Heever, 🥇 1st Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 20.16%)
Alicia Badenhorst, 🥈 2nd Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 19.98%)
Rahldeyah Esack, 3rd Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 19.54%)
Zaytoon Esack, 4th Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 18.38%)
Bernadette Williams, 5th Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 17.93%)
Honourable Mentions (A-Z):
👏 Barbara Louw, Ilana van Huyssteen, Kath Stevens, Latisha Govinder, and Noleen Roets.
🏆 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 (which include a photo of their measurement on the scale).
Johan Nortje, 🥇 1st Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 20.90%)
Riaan Jansen van Vuuren 🥈 2nd Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 18.90%)
Shaun Joubert, 🥉 3rd Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 14.27%)
Trevino Pillay, 4th Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 13.69%)
Peter Furstenburg, 5th Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 12.40%)
Honourable Mentions (A-Z):
👏 Adeeb Abdurahman, Carl Baptista, Curt Coetzee, Jovan de Lange, and Martin van der Merwe.
[BONUS] BUDDY CHALLENGE WINNERS
Rahldeyah Esack and Zaytoon Esack win our Buddy Challenge for achieving the highest combined ranking by coming 2nd in Women’s % Weight Loss and 3rd in Women’s % Weight Loss respectively.
They win a R10,000 adidas shopping voucher to share!
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Willie Combrink and Gert Mare.
[BONUS] COUPLE CHALLENGE WINNERS
Martin van der Merwe and Jolinda van der Merwe win our Couple Challenge for achieving the highest combined ranking by coming 2nd in Men’s Transformation and 6th in Women’s Transformation respectively.
They win a R10,000 adidas shopping voucher to share!
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Alicia Badenhorst and WP Badenhorst.
📊 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 top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost a total of 653.3kgs with an average of 13.1kgs or 13.7% of their body weight 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 Consistency Winner is… Angela Marx!
She wins a R2,000 cash prize!
👏 Honourable mentions (A-Z) to: Bianca du Preez, Cherize Grobler, Christie Kotze, Dee Coetzee, Gezella Cronje, Helena Douwrie, Jenny de Pontes, Kristi Scheepers, Lauren Mathieson, Maxine Chowles, Philile Phekana, Rosalind Bronkhorst, Sunette Barnard.
[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 31 teams submit their final results to be considered.
CONGRATULATIONS to the winning team, Dream Team Achievers, lead by Dee Coetzee!
Dee wins R3,000 for leading her team to victory and each team member gets a R500 Sleekgeek Online Store voucher.
👏 Runners up who scored points in order of placement were: Dream Team Vikings, Thinit to Winit Shakers, Dream Team Evolution, Lean Queens, Zero Limits Revolution, Iron Maidens 3, Iron Maidens 2, Zero Limits 1, Mountain Movers 2, Slimtastic, Mountain Movers 3, WaistAway2, Iron Maidens 1, Female Fighters, The Assassins, and SG Warriors.
Runner up prizes:
- Dream Team Vikings leader, Craig Nicholson, wins R2,000 cash for the 2nd place finish and each team member gets a R200 Sleekgeek online store voucher.
- Thinit to Winit team leader, Veronica van den Heever, wins R1,000 cash for the 3rd place finish and each team member gets a R150 Sleekgeek online store voucher.
Want to be next?
Early entries for the next 2022 New Year Challenge are now OPEN! Enter before 08 February for a 40% discount.
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