diff --git a/spacy/tests/doc/test_span.py b/spacy/tests/doc/test_span.py
index a70a71de1..c6890eed7 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/doc/test_span.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/doc/test_span.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ from spacy.lang.en import English
 from spacy.tokens import Doc, Span, Token
 from spacy.vocab import Vocab
 from spacy.util import filter_spans
-from spacy.training import Example
 from thinc.api import get_current_ops
 
 from ..util import add_vecs_to_vocab