diff --git a/docs/reqcontext.rst b/docs/reqcontext.rst
index 5dad6fbf..f109bd27 100644
--- a/docs/reqcontext.rst
+++ b/docs/reqcontext.rst
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ redirects or chain different applications together.
 After the request is dispatched and a response is generated and sent,
 the request context is popped, which then pops the application context.
 Immediately before they are popped, the :meth:`~Flask.teardown_request`
-and :meth:`~Flask.teardown_appcontext` functions are are executed. These
+and :meth:`~Flask.teardown_appcontext` functions are executed. These
 execute even if an unhandled exception occurred during dispatch.