Kammala wannan jumla: Moorhouse ya zama dan wasan Burtaniya na farko a wasan tseren nono a 1981 lokacin da ya lashe lambar tagulla a tseren mita 200 a Gasar Zakarun Turai a Yugoslavia. A shekara mai zuwa ya sami ɗanɗano na farko na zinare bayan ya ci nasara a tseren mita 100 a gasar cin kofin duniya.
Wasannin Commonwealth a Ostiraliya, a cikin sabon rikodin Burtaniya na 1:02.93, tare da tagulla a tseren 200m. A Gasar Cin Kofin Duniya a Guayaquil jim kaɗan bayan haka, ya rasa tagulla da kawai 2/100th na biyu a tseren tsere na 100m a bayan (masu zuwa) Gasar Olympics ta 1984 Steve Lundquist (Amurka) da Victor Davis (CAN), da kuma mai riƙe da tarihin duniya na gaba John Moffet (Amurka). A shekara mai zuwa ya dawo ya ci nasara ta hanyar daukar zinare a tseren mita 200 a gasar zakarun Turai ta 1983 a Rome tare da azurfa a tseren mita 100.