📢 We are thrilled to release the winners of
This was our 40th 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.
Want to be next? Entries for the New Year 2025 Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge are now open!
Here are some quick 📊 stats:
- We had a
total of 308 Sleekgeek Challengers submit their final results, losing a total of 1,149.71kgs. - They lost an average of 3.73kgs or 4.17% of their body weight per person.
- The top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost a total of 497.85kgs.
- The top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost an average of 9.96kgs or 10.64% 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 |
| 4.4 | 6.4 | 21%⬆️ |
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 | 6.8 | 23%⬆️ |
How would you rate how consistently active you are right now?
| BEFORE | AFTER | CHANGE |
| 4.4 | 6.7 | 23%⬆️ |
How would you rate your general energy levels right now?
| BEFORE | AFTER | CHANGE |
| 4.3 | 6.4 | 21%⬆️ |
AVERAGE IMPROVEMENT
| 23%⬆️ |
😍 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!
Summer 2024 Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge Partners: adidas, Vitaforce, CSB Body Fusion, Philips, Nutribullet, JBL, Gorilla Sports, and Ergonomicsdirect!
Sleekgeek gives away R100,000-R200,000 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, CSB Body Fusion, Philips, Nutribullet, JBL, Gorilla Sports, and Ergonomicsdirect!
Buddy Challenge, Couple Challenge, and Team Challenge Prizes:
Thank you to our prize partners: Vitaforce and adidas!
Read more about the bonus Couple Challenge, Buddy Challenge, and Team 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:
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.’
For this challenge, we had one substitute judge where Delaine Sardinha stood in for Sarah Ezzideen.
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:
🏆 WOMEN’S TRANSFORMATION WINNERS
Jo-Anne Fick, 🥇 1st Place Women’s Transformation:
Tanya Olivier, 🥈 2nd Place Women’s Transformation:
Meagan Le Coq, 🥉3rd Place Women’s Transformation:
Louise Oosthuizen, 4th Place Women’s Transformation:
Mariska Janse van Rensburg, 5th Place Women’s Transformation:
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Clasie Wagener (tied 6th/7th/8th/9th)
👏 Erika Truscott (tied 6th/7th/8th/9th)
👏 Jennifer Du Fourq (tied 6th/7th/8th/9th)
👏 Sarah van Aardt (tied 6th/7th/8th/9th)
👏 Natasha Armstrong (10th)
🏆 MEN’S TRANSFORMATION WINNERS
Hennnie Harding, 🥇 1st Place Men’s Transformation:
Herman Booyens, 🥈 2nd Place Men’s Transformation:
Jaco van Tonder, 🥉 3rd Place Men’s Transformation:
Brad Kirsten, 4th Place Men’s Transformation:
Andrew Pillinger, 5th Place Men’s Transformation:
Honourable Mentions:
🏆 Theo Wesson (placed higher in the % Weight Loss category)
🏆Marco Kuhn (placed higher in the % Weight Loss category)
🏆 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).
Danielle Da Silver, 🥇 1st Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 16.75%):
Monica Theron, 🥈 2nd Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 15.66%):
Christine Henning, 🥉 3rd Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 14.42%):
Jolene Barnard, 4th Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 14.21%):
Nathalie Schubert, 5th Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 12.10%):
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Ayesha Smedley (6th)
👏 Jennifer Dufourq (7th)
👏 Wendy Moore (8th)
👏 Baitebetse Ramong (9th)
👏 Anica Morelli (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 both fully and minimally clothed (which include a photo of their measurement on the scale).
Theo Wesson, 🥇 1st Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 27.19%):
Julian Fernandez, 🥈 2nd Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 17.47%):
Brian Greeff, 🥉 3rd Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 15.24%):
Marco Kuhn, 4th Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 12.67%):
David Feintuch, 5th Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 11.12%)
Honourable Mentions:
🏆 Hennie Harding (placed higher in the Transformation category)
🏆 Andrew Pillinger (placed higher in the Transformation category)
👏 Peter Chetty (6th)
👏 Marc Hardwick (7th)
👏 Marco Morelli (8th)
👏 Lesley Joubert (9th)
👏 Tony Quirk (10th)
[BONUS] BUDDY CHALLENGE WINNERS
Danielle Da Silver and Nathalie Schubert win our Buddy Challenge for achieving the best combined ranking!
- Danielle Da Silver placed 1st in Women’s % Weight Loss.
- Nathalie Schubert placed 5th in Women’s % Weight Loss.
They win a R10,000 adidas shopping voucher to share!
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Marco Morelli (8th) and Anica Morelli (10th)
[BONUS] COUPLE CHALLENGE WINNERS
Herman Booyens and Louise Oosthuizen win our Couple Challenge for achieving the best combined ranking!
- Herman Booyens placed 2nd in Men’s Transformation.
- Louise Oosthuizen placed 4th in Women’s Transformation.
They win a R10,000 adidas shopping voucher to share!
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Andrew Pillinger (5th) and Erika Truscott (tied 6th/7th/8th/9th)
📊 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
- Our women (262 finishers) lost an average of 3.95% of their body weight per person.
- Our men (46 finishers) lost an average of 5.41% of their body weight per person.
Our top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost a total of 497.85kgs with an average of 9.96kgs or 10.64% of their body weight lost per person!
- Our top 50 women lost an average of 9.13% of their body weight per person.
- Our top 50 (actually 46) men lost an average of 5.41% of their body weight per person.
[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 Lynne Klein!
They win R2,000 cash from Sleekgeek!
Honourable mentions (A-Z) to: Barrie Eksteen, Belinda Chaplin, Dave Rademan, Debbie Louw, Elaine Briedenhann, Jolene Barnard, Marco Morelli, Pauline Veldsman, Rosalind Bronkhorst, Wendy Moore, Verona Cocksedge.
[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 17 teams submit their final results to be considered.
CONGRATULATIONS to the winning team, Goal Diggers led by Sarah van Aardt!
👏 Overall Team Placings
- Goal Diggers – Team leader, Sarah van Aardt, wins R3,000 for leading their team to victory and each team member gets a Vitaforce supplement hamper worth R1,500.
- Metamorphosis – Team leader, Cornelia Fechter, wins R2,000 cash for the 2nd place finish and each team member gets a R200 Sleekgeek Online Store voucher.
- WaistAway 5 – Team leader, Hansie Bronkhorst, wins R1,000 cash for the 3rd place finish and each team member gets a R150 Sleekgeek Online Store voucher
- WaistAway 3
- WaistAway 2
- Dream Team Sassy
- WaistAway6
- Waist Away Warriors
- Dream Team Dominators
- Ctrl+Alt+Elite
- Goal-Getters
- WaistAway 1
- SlendHer
- House of Athena
- Mind Over Matter
- Belly Bailouts
- Thinittowinit
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