Career
Berberyan was awarded the Master of Sport of Armenia, International Class title in 1998. Martin Berberyan started freestyle wrestling in 1987 under the leadership of Samvel Markarian. Berberyan came in sixth place at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, his best Olympic result.
The 2004 European Championships were hosted by Ankara and competitions were held on April 24, the same day as the Armenian Genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire began.
The success of Martin Berberian received wide publicity in Armenia. Immediately after returning to Yerevan, National Olympic Committee of Armenia President Gagik Tsarukyan handed Berberyan the keys to a new car as a reward.
Berberyan came in eleventh place at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. After the Olympics, he moved up in weight class, from 55 kg to 60 kg.
He debuted in this new weight class in 2005.
Berberyan returned to the mat in 2008 and qualified to take part at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He came in seventeenth place. After that, Martin Berberyan decided to complete his wrestling career.
As of 2008, he is the main wrestling coach at the Los Angeles Sports Club, International Sports Union.
