diff --git a/instrumentation/github.com/gin-gonic/gin/otelgin/go.mod b/instrumentation/github.com/gin-gonic/gin/otelgin/go.mod
index aee6a3a91f8..a614073ab0c 100644
--- a/instrumentation/github.com/gin-gonic/gin/otelgin/go.mod
+++ b/instrumentation/github.com/gin-gonic/gin/otelgin/go.mod
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ module go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/github.com/gin-gonic/gin/otel
 
 go 1.22
 
-toolchain go1.23.0
-
 replace go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/propagators/b3 => ../../../../../propagators/b3
 
 require (
diff --git a/instrumentation/github.com/gin-gonic/gin/otelgin/test/go.mod b/instrumentation/github.com/gin-gonic/gin/otelgin/test/go.mod
index b7d4a854057..a6c4b4b3cfc 100644
--- a/instrumentation/github.com/gin-gonic/gin/otelgin/test/go.mod
+++ b/instrumentation/github.com/gin-gonic/gin/otelgin/test/go.mod
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ module go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/github.com/gin-gonic/gin/otel
 
 go 1.22
 
-toolchain go1.23.0
-
 require (
 	github.com/gin-gonic/gin v1.10.0
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.9.0
diff --git a/tools/go.mod b/tools/go.mod
index 338c76fee0a..0c9cb94a67c 100644
--- a/tools/go.mod
+++ b/tools/go.mod
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ module go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/tools
 
 go 1.22.1
 
-toolchain go1.23.0
-
 exclude github.com/blizzy78/varnamelen v0.6.1
 
 require (