Riddles

Hey! Can you guess this fun riddles? Don't worry it's just for funヾ(☆▽☆)

1. There was this competition where the contestants had to hold 'something'. At the end of the event, the winner was a person who was physically disabled (he had no hands and no any feet)! What was that 'something'?

2. I never was but always will be. No one ever saw me but everyone knows I exist. I give people the motivation to better themselves every day. What am I?

3. How can a girl go 25 days without sleep?

4. What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire word signifies a great woman. What is the word?

5. You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but when you look again you don't see a single person on the boat. Why?

( You can answer as many as you want :D )