📢 We are thrilled to release the winners of
This was our 41st Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge since 2011 (we do 2-3 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.
Here are some quick 📊 stats:
- We had a
total of 215 Sleekgeek Challengers submit their final results, losing a total of 870.13kgs. - They lost an average of 4.05kgs or 4.25% of their body weight per person.
- The top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost a total of 474.25kgs.
- The top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost an average of 9.49kgs or 10.04% 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
- 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 |
| 4.5 | 6.4 | 20%⬆️ |
How would you rate how you feel about your body right now?
| BEFORE | AFTER | CHANGE |
| 3.5 | 6.2 | 27%⬆️ |
How would you rate how consistently you eat healthily right now?
| BEFORE | AFTER | CHANGE |
| 4.5 | 6.7 | 23%⬆️ |
How would you rate how consistently active you are right now?
| BEFORE | AFTER | CHANGE |
| 4.7 | 6.6 | 20%⬆️ |
How would you rate your general energy levels right now?
| BEFORE | AFTER | CHANGE |
| 4.6 | 6.5 | 19%⬆️ |
AVERAGE IMPROVEMENT
| 19%⬆️ |
😍 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 2025 Sleekgeek 8-Week Challenge Partners: CSB Body Fusion, USN, FitFoodz, Nutribullet, SOiL, Ergonomicsdirect, Mitchum, and JBL!
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: CSB Body Fusion, USN, FitFoodz, Nutribullet, SOiL, Ergonomicsdirect, Mitchum, and JBL!
Buddy Challenge, Couple Challenge, and Team Challenge Prizes:
Thank you to our prize partner: FitFoodz!
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.’
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
Hester Landman, 🥇 1st Place Women’s Transformation:
Bianca Rothman, 🥈 2nd Place Women’s Transformation:
Euline Mason-Pearce, 🥉3rd Place Women’s Transformation:
Wendy Hendrikse, 4th Place Women’s Transformation:
Jo-Anne Fick, 5th Place Women’s Transformation:
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Christine Henning (6th)
👏 Suhina Sukuram (7th)
👏 Zena Vorster (8th)
👏 Anne Romani / 👏 Estee van den Berg / 👏 Kerry Cox / 👏 Sarah van Aardt (tied 9th)
🏆 MEN’S TRANSFORMATION WINNERS
Rob Hart, 🥇 1st Place Men’s Transformation:
Michael Mitchell, 🥈 2nd Place Men’s Transformation:
Hannes Landman, 🥉 3rd Place Men’s Transformation:
Farrell Hess, 4th Place Men’s Transformation:
Brian Greeff, 5th Place Men’s Transformation:
Honourable Mentions:
👏 Yuveshen Subramoney (6th)
👏 Sewewile Mbeleni (7th)
👏 Johan Vorster (8th)
👏 Stephen du Preez / 👏 Edward Darvall (tied 9th)
🏆 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).
Sarah Van Aardt, 🥇 1st Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 13.94%):
Angela Le Roux, 🥈 2nd Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 13.16%):
Gaynore Duthie-September, 🥉 3rd Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 13.13%):
Rowena Dudgeon, 4th Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 11.49%):
Suhina Sukuram, 5th Place Women’s Weight Loss (lost 11.15%):
Honourable Mentions:
❤️ Candice Bartleson who unfortunately submitted her measurements incorrectly to us by mistake and would have placed 4th with 11.54% weight loss.
🏆 Euline Mason-Pearce (placed higher in the Transformation category)
👏 Desire Smith (6th)
👏 Madeleine Coetzer (7th)
👏 Nikki Qadir (8th)
👏 Patricia Hoon (9th)
👏 Christine Henning (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).
Riaan Senekal, 🥇 1st Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 18.72%):
Gavin Rowe, 🥈 2nd Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 11.87%):
Yuveshen Subramoney, 🥉 3rd Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 9.96%):
Nico Engelbrecht, 4th Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 9.57%):
Hansie Bronkhorst, 5th Place Men’s Weight Loss (lost 8.42%):
Honourable Mentions:
🏆 Rob Hart (placed same in the Transformation category)
🏆 Hannes Landman (placed higher in the Transformation category)
👏 Wade Macartney (6th)
👏 Stefan Smedley (7th)
👏 Johan Vorster (8th)
👏 JP Meintjes (9th)
👏 Farrell Hess (10th)
👏 Jacques Verwey (11th)
[BONUS] BUDDY CHALLENGE WINNERS
Hester Landman and Hannes Schubert win our Buddy Challenge for achieving the best combined ranking!
- Hester Landman placed 1st in Women’s Transformation.
- Hannes Landman placed 3rd in Men’s Transformation.
They win a R6,000 of FitFoodz to share (30 meals per buddy)!
📊 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 (117 finishers) lost an average of 3.99% of their body weight per person.
- Our men (38 finishers) lost an average of 5.48% of their body weight per person.
Our top 50 Sleekgeek Challengers lost a total of 474.25kgs with an average of 9.49kgs or 10.04% of their body weight lost per person!
- Our top 50 women lost an average of 8.92% of their body weight per person.
- Our top
5038 men lost an average of 5.48% 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 Lourike Potgieter!
They win R2,000 cash from Sleekgeek!
Honourable mentions (A-Z) to: Belinda Chaplin, Charne Horn, Dave Rademan, Debbie Godfrey, Debbie Louw, Lauren Mathieson, Maree Louw, Michael Mitchell, Olivia Hess, Shizelle Glasgow.
[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 19 teams submit their final results to be considered.
CONGRATULATIONS to the winning team, Dream Team Dominators led by Ghadijah Du Toit Gabier!
👏 Overall Team Placings
- Dream Team Dominators – Team leader, Ghadijah Du Toit Gabier, wins R3,000 for leading their team to victory, and each team member gets a Sleekgeek cap!
- Goal Getters – Team leader, Verona Cocksedge, wins R2,000 cash for the 2nd place finish!
- Desert Roses – Team leader, Zena Vorster, wins R1,000 cash for the 3rd place finish!
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