📢 We are thrilled to release the winners of
This was our 32nd 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.
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Here are some quick 📊 stats:
- We had a
total of 501 Sleekgeek Challengers submit their final results, losing a total of 2,180.4kgs. - 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 636.9kgs.
- The top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost an average of 12.7kgs 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 |
| 4.6 | 6.5 | ⬆️ 19% |
How would you rate how you feel about your body right now?
| BEFORE | AFTER | CHANGE |
| 3.4 | 6.1 | ⬆️ 28% |
How would you rate how consistently you eat healthily right now?
| BEFORE | AFTER | CHANGE |
| 4.5 | 6.7 | ⬆️ 22% |
How would you rate how consistently active you are right now?
| BEFORE | AFTER | CHANGE |
| 4.6 | 6.8 | ⬆️ 22% |
How would you rate your general energy levels right now?
| BEFORE | AFTER | CHANGE |
| 4.6 | 6.6 | ⬆️ 20% |
AVERAGE IMPROVEMENT
| ⬆️ 22% |
😍 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, Totalsports, CSB Body Fusion, Cape Union Mart, Ergonomicsdirect, Milex, Food Lover’s Market, Samsung, and Montague Snacks!
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.
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
Tania Susack, 🥇 1st Place Women’s Transformation:
Christan Schroeder, 🥈 2nd Place Women’s Transformation:
Jenny De Pontes, 🥉 3rd Place Women’s Transformation:
Carien Wright, 4th Place Women’s Transformation:
Natasha Armstrong, 5th Place Women’s Transformation:
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Monique Mathobie (6th)
👏 Heidi Heiburg (7th)
👏 Amy Choi / Carla Lombard / Peta-Jane Dineen (tied 8th)
🏆 MEN’S TRANSFORMATION WINNERS
Jonnie Cartmill, 🥇 1st Place Men’s Transformation:
Quinton Botha, 🥈 2nd Place Men’s Transformation:
Curt Coetzee, 🥉 3rd Place Men’s Transformation:
Gavin Farmer, 4th Place Men’s Transformation:
WP Badenhorst, 5th Place Men’s Transformation:
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Jose Mathobie (6th)
👏 Sean Armstrong (7th)
👏 Jaco vd Merwe / Wynand Hattingh / Yazeed Gabier (tied 8th)
🏆 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).
Rahldeyah Esack, 🥇 1st Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 24.71%):
Zaytoon Esack, 🥈 2nd Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 23.93%):
Sheree Schaal, 3rd Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 22.15%):
Jeanette du Toit, 4th Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 19.28%):
Nadia Geyser, 5th Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 17.24%):
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Veronica van den Heever (6th)
👏 Tania Susack (7th)
👏 Charnae Pieterse (8th)
👏 Christy Oosthuizen (9th)
👏 Nathalie Barendze (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 (which include a photo of their measurement on the scale).
Robert Volschenk, 🥇 1st Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 15.76%):
Andrew Coetzee 🥈 2nd Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 13.28%):
Petrus Breedt, 🥉 3rd Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 13.08%):
Brendon Main, 4th Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 13.08%):
Matthew Baxter, 5th Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 12.85%):
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Johan Nortje (6th)
👏 Gavin Farmer (7th)
👏 Sheldon Schroede (8th)
👏 Curt Coetzee (9th)
👏 David Engelbrecht (10th)
[BONUS] BUDDY CHALLENGE WINNERS
Rahldeyah Esack and Zaytoon Esack win our Buddy Challenge for achieving the highest combined ranking by coming 1st in Women’s % Weight Loss and 2nd in Women’s % Weight Loss respectively.
They win a R10,000 adidas shopping voucher to share!
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Christan Schroeder (2nd) + Natasha Armstrong (5th)
👏 Brendon Main (4th) + Peta-Jane Dineen (8th)
[BONUS] COUPLE CHALLENGE WINNERS
Robert Volschenk and Nadia Geyser win our Couple Challenge for achieving the highest combined ranking by coming 1st in Men’s % Weight Loss and 5th in Women’s % Weight Loss respectively.
They win a R10,000 adidas shopping voucher to share!
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Jonathan Cartmill (1st) + Amy Choi (8th)
👏 Jose Mathobie (5th) + Monique Mathobie (6th)
👏 Christan Schroeder (2nd) + Sheldon Schroeder (8th)
👏 Andrew Coetzee (2nd) + Christy Oosthuizen (9th)
👏 Natasha Armstrong (5th) + Sean Armstrong (7th)
📊 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 636.9kgs with an average of 12.7kgs or 13.5% 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… Bianca du Preez!
They win a R2,000 cash prize!
Honourable mentions (A-Z) to: Cornelia Fechter, Estelle Jacobs, Jenny de Pontes, Joleen Witbooi, Mandy Teixeira, Michelle Diamonds, Rosalind Bronkhorst, Tania Czuszak, Wendy Moore.
[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, Mountain Movers 2, lead by Debbie Papamichael!
Their team had the noteworthy achievement of having 4 team members place in the top 10 of the Transformation Category.
Debbie 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:
- 2nd Dream Team Achievers – Dee wins R2,000 cash for the 2nd place finish and each team member gets a R200 Sleekgeek online store voucher.
- 3rd Iron Maidens 3 – Jenny de Pontes wins R1,000 cash for the 3rd place finish and each team member gets a R150 Sleekgeek online store voucher.
- 4th Mountain Movers 1
- 5th Warriors 2
- 6th Dream Team Dominators
- 7th Dream Team Evolution
- 8th Thin it to win it
- 9th Lean Queens
- 10th Zero Limits Revolution
- 11th Warriors 1
- 12th Zero Limits 1
- 13th Iron Maidens 2
- 14th Iron Maidens 1
- 15th Waist Away 3
- 16th Waist Away 1
- 17th Mountain Movers 3
- 18th Dream Team Vikings
- 19th Fit & Fierce
- 20th The Assassins
- 21st WaistAway 2
- 22nd Iridium
- 23rd Team Wildfire
- 24th Transformers
- 25th Dream Team Dynamite
- Any other teams not mentioned did not score any points for average weight loss, percentage completion, or transformation points.
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