Last-place Boston Marathon finisher is first place in our hearts...

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Lelisa Desisa won the 2015 Boston Marathon on Monday by finishing the race in an amazing 2 hours, nine minutes and 17 seconds. By contrast, it took Maickel Melamed 20 hours to complete the 26.2-mile race. He was the final person to do so, crossing the finish line just before 5 a.m. on Tuesday morning, almost a day after the event began.

But it's Melamed — along with a woman who ran the race on her prosthetic leg after being injured in the 2013 bombing — who may be the race's real hero.

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Melamed is a 39-year-old Venezuelan man with muscular dystrophy, according to multiple media reports from Boston. As he progressed on his journey, he was joined by a group of well-wishers and media members.

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“The rain, the distance, the cold — I mean everything today was overcome because when we are a team, the human creativity, the human magic appears every time,” Melamed himself said after finishing the course.

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On Tuesday, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh presented Melamed with a race medal — a most well-deserved race medal.

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