John Korir arrived in Hopkinton hoping to join his brother as a Boston Marathon champion. He left Boylston Street with plans to train a future winner.

Boston Marathon has a new winner on the men's side. John Korir won the event Monday with a time of 2:04:45. Korir, a runner from Kenya, hung with the pack throughout most of the race, but a late surge pushed him way ahead of the other runners down the stretch.

Korir pulled away to take down a world-class field in spectacular fashion with a finishing time of 2:04:45, the second-fastest winning time in the race’s history.