13 Consecutive Win for Indian-American in Spelling Bee
Indian-American has continued to win the prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee for the record 13th year in a row.
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This Year Ananya Vinay , a 12 year old Indian American girl has won the Spelling Bee. More than 11 million youngsters had entered the competition this time.
Ananya took home $ 40,000 cash prize after correctly spelling 'marocain' to become the 13th consecutive winner from the community. She won the spelling competition after competing for 12 hours and spelled 35 words correctly. Her rival , Rohan Rajeev, 14 year old Indian-American misspelled Scandinavian derived word 'marram' which means a beach grass.
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Ananya is the 13th consecutive Indian-American to win Scripps National Spelling Bee and the 18th of the past 22 winners with Indian heritage. This competition began in 1999 with the victory of Nupur Lala.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee is an annual spelling bee held in the United States. The bee is run on not-for-profit basis by E.W. Scripps Company. Contest participants can not be older than fourteen.
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