diff --git a/api/app/routes/classification.py b/api/app/routes/classification.py
index a484e9af6..7b8a0c3fb 100644
--- a/api/app/routes/classification.py
+++ b/api/app/routes/classification.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 
 @router.post("/", status_code=status.HTTP_200_OK, summary="Perform image classification")
-async def classify(file: UploadFile = File(...)) -> ClsCandidate:
+def classify(file: UploadFile = File(...)) -> ClsCandidate:
     """Runs holocron vision model to analyze the input image"""
     probs = classify_image(decode_image(file.file.read()))