diff --git a/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_events.py b/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_events.py
index 919d543b0329e9..53eb5c7a699ff0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_events.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_events.py
@@ -287,6 +287,7 @@ async def coro2():
         ):
             self.assertRaises(
                 RuntimeError, self.loop.run_until_complete, coro2())
+            support.gc_collect()
 
     # Note: because of the default Windows timing granularity of
     # 15.6 msec, we use fairly long sleep times here (~100 msec).