To improve the convenience and the handleability of the keeping and the filing or the like of a race completion certificate, to position the race completion certificate as an information medium and to perform additional service to game entrants.
Game entrant data are written in magnetic cards as magnetic data for the respective game entrants, at least the numbers and the names of the game entrants are printed on the magnetic cards, the cards are distributed before a game starts and ranking slips are distributed to the respective game entrants based on orders in which the game entrants reach a goal point. Then, based on the ranking numbers of the ranking slips possessed by the respective game entrants, game required time data are specified from ranking data and the ranking data of the respective game entrants are specified by reading the game entrant data from the magnetic cards. Further, the specified ranking data, the game required time data and the game entrant data are written in the magnetic cards and printed on the surface of the magnetic cards and they are issued as the race completion certificates.
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