📢 We are thrilled to release the winners of the New Year 2024 Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge!

This was our 38th 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 335 Sleekgeek Challengers submit their final results, losing a total of 1,532.65kgs.
• They lost an average of 4.58kgs or 4.82% of their body weight per person.
• The top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost a total of 584.15kgs.
• The top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost an average of 11.68kgs or 11.99% 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

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📊 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	6.6	21%⬆️

How would you rate how you feel about your body right now?

BEFORE	AFTER	CHANGE
3.6	6.1	25%⬆️

How would you rate how consistently you eat healthily right now?

BEFORE	AFTER	CHANGE
4.4	6.8	24%⬆️

How would you rate how consistently active you are right now?

BEFORE	AFTER	CHANGE
4.5	6.9	24%⬆️

How would you rate your general energy levels right now?

BEFORE	AFTER	CHANGE
4.6	6.7	21%⬆️

AVERAGE IMPROVEMENT

23%⬆️

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😍 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 partners!

New Year 2024 Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge Partners: adidas, Vitaforce, HUAWEI, CSB Body Fusion, Trojan, Nutribullet, USN, Faithful to Nature, and UCOOK!

Sleekgeek gives away over R190,000 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

They all get a share of:

Thank you to our prize partners adidas, Vitaforce, HUAWEI, CSB Body Fusion, Trojan, Nutribullet, USN, Faithful to Nature, and UCOOK!

Buddy Challenge, Couple Challenge, and Team Challenge Prizes:

Thank you to our partners: 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.

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⚖️ 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:

The Transformation category is judged by our independent panel of judges (shown below) 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.’

View our judging panel profiles over here.

% Weight Loss:

The % Weight loss category 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.

• NOTE: As per our terms and conditions the “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:

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🏆 WOMEN’S TRANSFORMATION WINNERS

Isabelle Janse van Rensburg, 🥇 1st Place Women’s Transformation:

Zena Vorster, 🥈 2nd Place Women’s Transformation:

Shizelle Glasgow, 🥉 3rd Place Women’s Transformation:

Carina Van Zyl, 4th Place Women’s Transformation:

Monelle Engelbrecht, 5th Place Women’s Transformation:

Honourable Mentions:
👏 Natasha Armstrong (6th)
👏 Janel Behr (7th)
👏 Candice Setton-Stein (8th)
👏 Elain du Toit and Michelle Pascucci (Tied 9th)

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🏆 MEN’S TRANSFORMATION WINNERS

Viv Blumears, 🥇 1st Place Men’s Transformation:

Stefan Viljoen, 🥈 2nd Place Men’s Transformation:

Heinrich Scheepers, 🥉 3rd Place Men’s Transformation:

Farrell Hess, 4th Place Men’s Transformation:

Glen Badenhorst, 5th Place Men’s Transformation:

Honourable Mentions:
👏 Vaughn Cox (6th)
👏 Eben Botma (7th)
👏 Deon Dessels (8th)
👏 Gerrit Stockenstrom (9th)
👏 Taswell Franciscus (10th)

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🏆 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).

Joanita Haskins, 🥇 1st Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 20.26%):

Kirsten Ackermann Ferreira, 🥈 2nd Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 19.32%):

Nathalie Schubert, 🥉 3rd Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 15.70%):

Marinda Badenhorst, 4th Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 14.76%):

Susan Scheepers, 5th Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 14.66%):

Honourable Mentions:
🏆 Zena Vorster placed in % Weight Loss but achieved a better result in the Transformation category.
👏 Christelle Parsons (6th)
👏 Jade Gottschalk (7th)
👏 Lirenza Wilson (8th)
👏 Chantelle Kleb (9th)
👏 Mandisa Sidwaba (10th)

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🏆 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).

Nick Ferreira, 🥇 1st Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 17.26%):

Brian Greeff, 🥈 2nd Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 15.87%):

Matthew Deas, 🥉 3rd Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 13.32%):

Mario Bissolati, 4th Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 12.87%):

Roberto Bissolati, 5th Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 12.75%):

Honourable Mentions:
🏆 Viv Blumears, 🏆 Stefan Viljoen,🏆 Heinrich Scheepers, 🏆 Glen Badenhorst, and 🏆 Eben Botma all placed in % Weight Loss but achieved the same or better results in the Transformation category.
👏 Johan Vorster (6th)
👏 Jan Huyser (7th)
👏 Stephen Hain (8th)
👏 Benno Bessinger (9th)
👏 David Feintuch (10th)

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[BONUS] BUDDY CHALLENGE WINNERS

Zena Vorster and Brian Greeff win our Buddy Challenge for achieving the best combined ranking!

• Zena Vorster placed 2nd in Women’s Transformation.
• Brian Greeff placed 2nd in Men’s % Weight Loss.

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

Honourable Mentions:
👏 Shizelle Glasgow (3rd) and Natasha Armstrong (6th)
👏 Mario Bissolati (4th) and Roberto Bissolati (5th)
👏 Shizelle Glasgow (3rd) and Jade Gottschalk (7th)
👏 Heinrich Scheepers (3rd) and Stephen Hain (10th)
👏 Nathalie Schubert (3rd) and Mandisa Sidwaba (10th)
👏 Natasha Armstrong (6th) and Jade Gottschalk (7th)

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[BONUS] COUPLE CHALLENGE WINNERS

Nick Ferreira and Kirsten Ackermann Ferreira win our Couple Challenge for achieving the best combined ranking!

• Nick Ferreira placed 1st in Men’s % Weight Loss.
• Kirsten Ackermann Ferreira place 2nd in Women’s % Weight Loss.

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

Honourable Mentions:
👏 Zena Vorster (2nd) and Johan Vorster (6th)
👏 Heinrich Scheepers (3rd) and Susan Scheepers (5th)
👏 Marinda Badenhorst (4th) and Glen Badenhorst (7th)

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📊 TOP 50 RANKED BY PERCENTAGE OF WEIGHT LOSS

Well done to our top 50 people in the percentage of body weight lost category!

We had a total of 335 Sleekgeek Challengers submit their final results, losing a total of 1,532.65kgs with an average of 4.58kgs or 4.82% of their body weight lost per person!

• Our men (57 finishers) lost an average of 5.69% of their body weight per person.
• Our women (280 finishers) lost an average of 4.65% of their body weight per person.

Our top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost a total of 584.15kgs with an average of 11.68kgs or 11.99% of their body weight lost per person!

• Our top 50 men lost an average of 6.58% of their body weight per person.
• Our top 50 women lost an average of 10.86% of their body weight per person.

We had 12 Men and 37 Women in the Top 50.

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[BONUS] CONSISTENCY AWARD WINNER

For 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 Sonia Le Roux!

They win a R2,000 cash prize!

Honourable mentions (A-Z) to: Belinda Hageman, Belinda Chaplin, Cheryl Pretorius, Chrisna Els, Christa Naude, Dave Rademan, Debbie Louw, Elaine du Toit, Euline Mason-Pearce, Ghadijah Du Toit, Jan Huyser, Jo-anne Fick, Jolene Barnard, Kerry Cox, Kim Barnard, Kirstie Atkins, Lauren Mathieson, Leon Hough, Mandy Hain, Maxine Chowles, Natasha Armstrong, Noluthando Mgijima, Nomsa Muthaphuli, Nomvula Buthelezi, Olivia Hess, Petro Herbst, Rosalind Bronkhorst, Tracy Grant.

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[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 20 teams submit their final results to be considered. 

CONGRATULATIONS to the winning team, Dream Team Dominators lead by Ghadijah Du Toit Gabier!

👏 Overall Team Placings

1. Dream Team Dominators – Team leader, Ghadijah Du Toit Gabier, wins R3,000 for leading her team to victory and each team member gets a R500 Sleekgeek Online Shop voucher.
   
2. Waist Away 5 – Team leader, Hansie Bronkhorst, wins R2,000 cash for the 2nd place finish and each team member gets a R200 Sleekgeek Online Shop voucher.
   
3. Goal Diggers – Team leader, Sarah van Aardt, wins R1,000 cash for the 3rd place finish and each team member gets a R150 Sleekgeek Online Shop voucher
   
4. Dream Team Namibia
5. Dream Team Dynamite
6. Metamorphosis
7. Ctrl+Alt+Elite
8. Waist Away 1
9. Assassins
10. Goal-Getters
11. House of Athena
12. Waist Away 6
13. Thinittowinit
14. Dream Team Achievers
15. SlendHer
16. Belly Bailouts
17. Waist Away 3
18. Waist Away Warriors
19. Waist Away 2
20. Mind Over Matter

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