diff --git a/examples/sanic/requirements.txt b/examples/sanic/requirements.txt
index 08e89727..a764b664 100644
--- a/examples/sanic/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/sanic/requirements.txt
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ python_engineio
 python_socketio
 sanic==0.3.1
 six==1.10.0
-ujson==1.35
+ujson==5.2.0
 uvloop==0.8.0