Indian Americans have recently dominated the Scripps National Spelling Bee, with champions in 2022, a historic sweep in 2019 and winners from 2013 to 2018, here are some of them to know.
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Sriram J Hathwar and Ansun Sujoe became the first co-champions in 13 and 14 years.
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Vanya Shivashankar (Texas) wins with "scherenschnitte" and Gokul Venkatachalam (Missouri) wins with "Nunataq".
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Jairam Hathwar (New York) & Nihar Saireddy Janga (Texas) win with the words Feldenkrais and Gesellschaft respectively.
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Ananya Vinay, a 12-year-old Indian-American, triumphs by spelling 'marocain' correctly.
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Karthik Nemmani from Texas wins by spelling "haecceities" and "koinonia".
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Rishik Gandhasri, Saketh Sundar, Shruthika Padhy, Sohum Sukhatankar, Abhijay Kodali, Christopher Serrao and Rohan Raja.
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Harini Logan wins a spell-off against Vikram Raju, correctly spelling 21 out of 26 words in 90 seconds.