diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e18b563405..ed0b6256be 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 ## [Unreleased](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/compare/v1.7.0-0.26b0...HEAD)
-
+- `opentelemetry-instrumentation-tornado` Add support instrumentation for Tornado 5.1.1
+  ([#812](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/812))
+  
 ## [1.7.1-0.26b1](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/releases/tag/v1.7.0-0.26b0) - 2021-11-11
 
 - `opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-lambda` Add instrumentation for AWS Lambda Service - pkg metadata files (Part 1/2)
diff --git a/docs-requirements.txt b/docs-requirements.txt
index efee060b4a..f56f5613ac 100644
--- a/docs-requirements.txt
+++ b/docs-requirements.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,6 @@ PyMySQL~=0.9.3
 pyramid>=1.7
 redis>=2.6
 sqlalchemy>=1.0
-tornado>=6.0
+tornado>=5.1.1
 ddtrace>=0.34.0
 httpx~=0.18.0
diff --git a/instrumentation/README.md b/instrumentation/README.md
index 05ee7b5da3..fb8a9638b5 100644
--- a/instrumentation/README.md
+++ b/instrumentation/README.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 | [opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlalchemy](./opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlalchemy) | sqlalchemy |
 | [opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlite3](./opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlite3) | sqlite3 |
 | [opentelemetry-instrumentation-starlette](./opentelemetry-instrumentation-starlette) | starlette ~= 0.13.0 |
-| [opentelemetry-instrumentation-tornado](./opentelemetry-instrumentation-tornado) | tornado >= 6.0 |
+| [opentelemetry-instrumentation-tornado](./opentelemetry-instrumentation-tornado) | tornado >= 5.1.1 |
 | [opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib](./opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib) | urllib |
 | [opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib3](./opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib3) | urllib3 >= 1.0.0, < 2.0.0 |
 | [opentelemetry-instrumentation-wsgi](./opentelemetry-instrumentation-wsgi) | wsgi |
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-tornado/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/tornado/package.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-tornado/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/tornado/package.py
index 9766d0ba34..195980dd07 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-tornado/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/tornado/package.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-tornado/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/tornado/package.py
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 
-_instruments = ("tornado >= 6.0",)
+_instruments = ("tornado >= 5.1.1",)
diff --git a/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/bootstrap_gen.py b/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/bootstrap_gen.py
index 7d8eee34ee..27a1717ea0 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/bootstrap_gen.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/bootstrap_gen.py
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
         "instrumentation": "opentelemetry-instrumentation-starlette==0.26b1",
     },
     "tornado": {
-        "library": "tornado >= 6.0",
+        "library": "tornado >= 5.1.1",
         "instrumentation": "opentelemetry-instrumentation-tornado==0.26b1",
     },
     "urllib3": {