diff --git a/tokio/src/task/mod.rs b/tokio/src/task/mod.rs
index 725553576..25dab0ced 100644
--- a/tokio/src/task/mod.rs
+++ b/tokio/src/task/mod.rs
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
 //! ```
 //!
 //! Again, like `std::thread`'s [`JoinHandle` type][thread_join], if the spawned
-//! task panics, awaiting its `JoinHandle` will return a [`JoinError`]`. For
+//! task panics, awaiting its `JoinHandle` will return a [`JoinError`]. For
 //! example:
 //!
 //! ```