Viswanathan Anand is significant in Indian sport as

the first Indian to win an Olympic medal in shootingCorrect answerYour answerthe first Indian to win a badminton world titleCorrect answerYour answerIndia's first chess grandmaster and later world championCorrect answerYour answerthe first Indian to captain a World Cup winning cricket teamCorrect answerYour answer

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Anand became India's first chess grandmaster in 1988.
He went on to hold the world championship, and his success is the reason India now produces grandmasters in numbers.
The other achievements listed belong to other people in other sports entirely.

Worth noting

A first that opens a pipeline is worth more than a first that stands alone, and the growth of Indian chess after Anand is the standard example.

Concept: India's first world chess champion
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