diff --git a/spring-kafka-docs/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/kafka/sending-messages.adoc b/spring-kafka-docs/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/kafka/sending-messages.adoc
index cae598b0f4..cf0418f5d5 100644
--- a/spring-kafka-docs/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/kafka/sending-messages.adoc
+++ b/spring-kafka-docs/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/kafka/sending-messages.adoc
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ This section shows examples of sending messages to Kafka:
 public void sendToKafka(final MyOutputData data) {
     final ProducerRecord<String, String> record = createRecord(data);
 
-    CompletableFuture<SendResult<Integer, String>> future = template.send(record);
+    CompletableFuture<SendResult<String, String>> future = template.send(record);
     future.whenComplete((result, ex) -> {
         if (ex == null) {
             handleSuccess(data);