diff --git a/eth_abi/decoding.py b/eth_abi/decoding.py
index f706a94a9b..6896011988 100644
--- a/eth_abi/decoding.py
+++ b/eth_abi/decoding.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 from eth_utils import (
     big_endian_to_int,
-    to_normalized_address,
+    to_checksum_address,
     to_tuple,
 )
 
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ def from_type_str(cls, abi_type, registry):
 class AddressDecoder(Fixed32ByteSizeDecoder):
     value_bit_size = 20 * 8
     is_big_endian = True
-    decoder_fn = staticmethod(to_normalized_address)
+    decoder_fn = staticmethod(to_checksum_address)
 
     @parse_type_str('address')
     def from_type_str(cls, abi_type, registry):
diff --git a/tests/test_decoding/test_decoder_properties.py b/tests/test_decoding/test_decoder_properties.py
index d4d96efee4..01e67c850f 100644
--- a/tests/test_decoding/test_decoder_properties.py
+++ b/tests/test_decoding/test_decoder_properties.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     big_endian_to_int,
     decode_hex,
     int_to_big_endian,
-    to_normalized_address,
+    to_checksum_address,
 )
 from eth_utils.toolz import (
     complement,
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ def test_decode_address(address_bytes, padding_size, data_byte_size):
     else:
         decoded_value = decoder(stream)
 
-    actual_value = to_normalized_address(stream_bytes[:data_byte_size][-20:])
+    actual_value = to_checksum_address(stream_bytes[:data_byte_size][-20:])
 
     assert decoded_value == actual_value