Medzhlumyan was born on 3 April 1967 in
Berd,
Armenia. He began to engage
freestyle wrestling at the age of ten years under the coaching of Aram Hakobyan. In 1981, he went to study at one of the sport schools of
Yerevan, where he was coached by Razmik Karapetyan. He came in first at the 1986
Wrestling World Cup at the espoir level, and in 1987 he was the Espoir World Champion. After moving up to senior, he won the Soviet Championship in 1988 and 1989. Medzhlumyan won the gold medal at the 1989
European Wrestling Championships in Ankara, defeating Turkey's Ilyas Suekrueoglu in the final, and won the bronze medal at the
1989 World Wrestling Championships in Martigny. In 1990, he won the gold medal at the World Cup and the silver medal at the
Goodwill Games. He finished his career in 1992. In 1993, he graduated from the
Armenian State Institute of Physical Culture. In the future, he engaged in entrepreneurial activity. On 30 March 2005, Medzhlumyan died in a car accident on the
Yerevan-
Ijevan highway near the city of
Sevan in
Gegharkunik Province. He was buried at the cemetery in the
Nubarashen District of Yerevan. In July 2005, the sports school and a street in Berd were named after him. Since 2006, Armenia hold an international youth tournament in freestyle wrestling, dedicated to his memory. ==References==