A 13-year-old Indian-origin kid has won the Jackson County Spelling Bee in Missouri, which had 90 rounds spanning two weeks.
Seventh-grader Kush Sharma, who has beaten fifth-grader Sophia Hoffman, from the Kansas City area, breezed through the word list provided by the Scripps National Spelling Bee, the New York Daily News reported.
The competition was halted after there was no winner in 60 rounds and had extra rounds added.
Sharma won the 29th round, after his 11-year-old competitor spelled “stifling” wrong in the 28th round of the competition and has now earned a spot in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.(ANI)