Career
At the Olympics of 1924 first Olympic games he was a lieutenant in the Second Regiment of the Huzares. Eventually he would be promoted to Inspector of the Cavalry. In May 1940 Van der Voort van Zijp fought valiantly at the bloody battle of Grebbeberg.
After the German invasion of the Netherlands, he was imprisoned with other notables as a prisoner of war in Germany.
Adolph van der Voort van Zijp died in Monaco on 8 March 1978.