page_title: 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee
section_title: Top finishers
hierarchical_section_title: 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee / Top finishers
caption_attribution_description: Some of the contestants in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, 2011
context_page_description: The 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held from May 31 – June 2, 2011 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland near Washington, D.C.. The champion was 14-year-old Sukanya Roy, who was the ninth Indian-American champion in the past thirteen competitions.
context_section_description: Sukanya Roy, of South Abington Township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, representing the Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, won the competition by spelling cymotrichous.
  Laura Newcombe, of Toronto, Ontario, was the runner-up. She was eliminated by the word sorites as psorites.
  Joanna Ye, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and Arvind Mahankali, of Forest Hills, New York, tied for third place. Ye was eliminated by the word galoubet as galubey, while Mahankali misspelled jugendstil as uguntschtiel.
  Dakota Jones, of Las Vegas, Nevada, placed fifth; he was eliminated by the word zanja, spelling it as zangha.
  Veronica Penny, of Rockland, Ontario, Dhivya Senthil Murugan, of Denver, Colorado, Sriram Hathwar, of Painted Post, New York, and Mashad Arora of Brownsville, Texas, tied for sixth place.
  Lily Jordan, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Nabeel Rahman, of Buffalo, New York, and Prakash Mishra, of Waxhaw, North Carolina, tied for tenth place.
  Samuel Estep, of Berryville, Virginia, placed thirteenth.
caption: From left to right: Laura Newcombe, Dakota Jones, Arvind Mahankali and Joanna Ye.
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