portable unique-information storage means recording therein unique information for authenticating a participant;

a reader apparatus arranged in a location corresponding to where an exercise is performed, and adapted to read the unique information recorded in said unique-information storage means; and

an exercise-data management server apparatus arranged in a given location;

wherein:

said reader apparatus including:

a reader-side communication section operable, when the unique information is read, to transmit information indicating having read said unique information to said exercise-data management server apparatus; and

said exercise-data management server apparatus including:

first storage means storing, as a schedule, a time zone in which an exercise is to be performed;

second storage means storing predetermined exercise result-related information in association with a type of exercise;

server-side communication means operable to receive, from said reader apparatus, said unique information and the read-indicating information of said unique information; and

exercise data acquisition means operable, based on the unique information and the read-indicating information each received by said server-side communication means, and the contents stored in said first and second storage means, to acquire predetermined information about an exercise result of a participant who has taken along said unique-information storage means.