diff --git a/third_party/blink/renderer/core/animation/animation.cc b/third_party/blink/renderer/core/animation/animation.cc
index 18bfff861f6b17..63c6e37019de65 100644
--- a/third_party/blink/renderer/core/animation/animation.cc
+++ b/third_party/blink/renderer/core/animation/animation.cc
@@ -2320,10 +2320,6 @@ bool Animation::Update(TimingUpdateReason reason) {
 
   if (reason == kTimingUpdateForAnimationFrame) {
     if (idle || CalculateAnimationPlayState() == kFinished) {
-      // TODO(crbug.com/1029348): Per spec, we should have a microtask
-      // checkpoint right after the update cycle. Once this is fixed we should
-      // no longer need to force a synchronous resolution here.
-      AsyncFinishMicrotask();
       finished_ = true;
     }
   }
diff --git a/third_party/blink/renderer/core/animation/document_animations.cc b/third_party/blink/renderer/core/animation/document_animations.cc
index 32cfdff88acf1e..1eb731c5fc91be 100644
--- a/third_party/blink/renderer/core/animation/document_animations.cc
+++ b/third_party/blink/renderer/core/animation/document_animations.cc
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 #include "third_party/blink/renderer/core/page/page_animator.h"
 #include "third_party/blink/renderer/core/style/computed_style.h"
 #include "third_party/blink/renderer/platform/bindings/microtask.h"
+#include "third_party/blink/renderer/platform/heap/persistent.h"
 
 namespace blink {
 
@@ -260,10 +261,13 @@ void DocumentAnimations::RemoveReplacedAnimations(
 
   // The list of animations for removal is constructed in reverse composite
   // ordering for efficiency. Flip the ordering to ensure that events are
-  // dispatched in composite order.
+  // dispatched in composite order.  Queue as a microtask so that the finished
+  // event is dispatched ahead of the remove event.
   for (auto it = animations_to_remove.rbegin();
        it != animations_to_remove.rend(); it++) {
-    (*it)->RemoveReplacedAnimation();
+    Animation* animation = *it;
+    Microtask::EnqueueMicrotask(WTF::Bind(&Animation::RemoveReplacedAnimation,
+                                          WrapWeakPersistent(animation)));
   }
 }