{"id":34989,"date":"2022-06-03T12:35:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T12:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/harini-logan-wins-2022-scripps-national-spelling-bee\/"},"modified":"2022-06-03T12:35:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T12:35:23","slug":"harini-logan-wins-2022-scripps-national-spelling-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/harini-logan-wins-2022-scripps-national-spelling-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Harini Logan wins 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harini Logan has been declared the winner of the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee in a historic spell-off, after several rounds left two spellers tied. It was her fourth time of lei competing in the bee.<\/p>\n

“Honestly, so surreal,” she said of her win, calling it “a dream.”<\/p>\n

In the final rounds, both Vikram Raju, 12, and 14-year-old Logan first missed words back to back – tripped up by “Senijextee,” meaning “a Salishan people of the Columbian River Valley in Washington and British Columbia” and ” Powys, “a Welsh geographic name, respectively.<\/p>\n

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History in the making as # Speller231<\/a> Harini Logan ends a SPELLbinding career as a Finalist in her 4th Bee. She compares her journey di lei to a bowstring. With every disappointing finish in a bee, the tension got tighter and tighter propelling her to an incredible finish. #spellingbee<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/qo0AXVGRtp<\/a><\/p>\n

– Scripps National Spelling Bee (@ScrippsBee) June 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

But Raju, a seventh grader from Denver, was tripped up in the next round by “caul” – allowing Logan, who hails from San Antonio, Texas, to spell “sereh” correctly. But she was then tripped up by “drimys,” meaning the two headed to the next round.<\/p>\n