Foreign students row their boat during this year's Shanghai International Students Dragon Boat Race on June 1. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

More than 1,000 foreign students from 29 local universities participated in this year's Shanghai International Students Dragon Boat Race on June 1.

Jointly organized by the Shanghai Education Committee and the Institute of Shanghai Universities Foreign Student Education, the annual race took place at the Fengxian campus of the East China University of Science and Technology.

The team from the Shanghai University of International Business and Economics won first place, followed by East China Normal University and Donghua University.

Soumaila Souley Aboubacar, a doctoral student at the East China University of Science and Technology who participated in the race, said that training and discipline was key to the team's success.